Component tagging with maintenance related information in open and closed formats

US7341197B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• SAP AG · DE

Inventors

• Gordon Muehl · Espelkamp, DE
• Klaus Irle · Walldorf, DE
• Walter G. Kienle · St. Leon-Rot, DE
• Knut Heusermann · Bad Schönborn, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 31, 2002
• Grant date: Mar 11, 2008
• Expiry date: Feb 20, 2023

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/06
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A method for maintaining a complex article, including retrieving maintenance information relating to maintenance of a component of a complex article from an electronically-accessible tag coupled to the component and applying the retrieved maintenance information to a determination regarding maintenance of the complex article. A device including a complex article including a first component and a second component, the first and second components being one of individually replaceable and maintainable. The first component is tagged with a first tag that stores first computer accessible information including a first identifier identifying the first component and first maintenance information describing maintenance of the first component. The second component is tagged with a second tag that stores second computer accessible information including a second identifier identifying the second component and second maintenance information describing maintenance of the second component.