Patent ID: 7353142
Filing Date: 2008-04-01
Classification: G05B,H04L

Abstract:
1. A system for remote maintenance management of equipment by a maintenance company, said system comprising local monitoring units fixedly installed near and dedicated to at least one piece of said equipment, and a maintenance company calculator connected to said local monitoring units by means of a transmission network, each of said local monitoring units comprising: monitoring means for real-time detecting and processing of failures occurring in said at least one piece of equipment to which the local monitoring unit is dedicated, identification means for identifying a technician when starting an operation on the dedicated piece of said equipment, command means for allowing said maintenance technician identified using identification means, to signal a start and end events of said operation on the dedicated piece of said equipment, time stamping means for time stamping said start and end events, data entry means for introducing data describing work done during said operation performed by said identified technician, and data storage means for storing in the form of an electronic maintenance record file said data describing work done during said operation on the dedicated piece of equipment in relation with identification of the technician and timestamp information of the start and end events of the operation.