Patent ID: 7996337

Claim:
A method of remotely determining reliability for at least one DC motor system located on a site, the method comprising: providing at least one remote monitoring and diagnostics (RM&D) system, wherein the at least one RM&D system is at a location different from the site having the at least one DC motor system; integrating the at least one RM&D system with at least one DC motor condition forecaster, wherein the at least one DC motor system condition forecaster receives a plurality of operating data from the at least one DC motor system; receiving the plurality of operating data from the at least one DC motor condition forecaster; transmitting a plurality of historical operating data corresponding to the at least one DC motor system from at least one historical database to the at least one RM&D system; utilizing the plurality of operating data to determine whether reliability of at least one component of the at least one DC motor system are within an alarm range; and if reliability of the of at least one component of the at least one DC motor system are within the alarm range; then notifying at least one support network.