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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 20, 2004
Filed:
Jul. 27, 2000
Anil Varma, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Nicholas Edward Roddy, Clifton Park, NY (US);
David Richard Gibson, North East, PA (US);
General Electric Company, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Abstract
A system and method are disclosed for aiding a field engineer in the field such as at a remote service facility in analyzing a fault log of a malfunctioning machine such as a locomotive. The method includes obtaining data associated with operation of the malfunctioning machine from a user at a second computing unit coupled via a communications network such as the Internet to a first computing unit such as a centrally located server operable to provide data associated with analysis of the malfunctioning machine, and providing at the second computing unit at least one of a diagnosis of and a repair for the malfunctioning machine based on the data associated with the operation of the malfunctioning machine and the data associated with analysis of the malfunctioning machine.