Patent ID: 7966139

Claim:
An apparatus for monitoring the maintenance of a plant equipped with various systems, the apparatus comprising: a screening module for defining the function of each of the systems and accordingly screening the systems; a classifying module for determining the importance of each of the systems and accordingly classifying the systems so that the systems can be subjected to various levels of monitoring; a performance criteria-setting module for setting performance criteria for each of the levels of monitoring; an availability data module for recording the status and hours of the unavailability of each of the systems; a reliability data module for determining whether any of the systems fails; a real-time monitoring module for monitoring the availability data module and the reliability data module and determining whether any of availability and reliability limits is reached; a performance-assessing module for receiving information from the real-time monitoring module, accordingly monitoring the trend of the function of each of the systems and correcting any ineffective activity of the maintenance based on coals of a corrective action plan; and a special monitoring module for receiving information from the performance-assessing module, executing special monitoring on any of the systems if necessary and returning the system to be monitored by the performance-assessing module if the system reaches the goals for the corrective action plan again.