Patent ID: 7003434

Claim:
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 and compromising means for receiving, storing and processing all information transmitted by said local monitoring units, each of said local monitoring units comprising: 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 event 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, 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 information of the technician and timestamp information of the start and end events of the operation, and means for detecting a presence of a person in a maintenance area of the dedicated piece of said equipment, means for requesting the detected person to identify his/herself, and means for transmitting to the maintenance company calculator an identification error message if the detected person is not identified using the identification means within a predefined period of time.