Patent ID: 7239977

Claim:
A method for systematic evaluation and rating of technical equipment using a data processing device, which works together with at at least one data memory and has an input and display device, the method comprising: at least one first data set having economically relevant input parameters and at least one second data set having technically relevant input parameters are detected and/or established for the particular technical equipment, for each data set, through knowledge-based predetermined numerical and/or logical linkages and knowledge-based predetermined weighting factors specific to the equipment, the established input parameters are brought together into an economic evaluation parameter FIx and a technical evaluation parameter RIx, respectively, and from the established evaluation parameters, through knowledge-based predetermined numerical linkages and weighting factors, a single overall resulting evaluation parameter EIx for validating the particular technical equipment is determined, storing at least one of the established evaluation parameters and the single overall resulting evaluation parameter EIx in the at least one data memory, and displaying related information of at least one of the established evaluation parameters and the single overall resulting evaluation parameter EIx.