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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2005
Filed:
Mar. 02, 2001
Michael J. Ramadei, Trumbull, CT (US);
David L. Rich, Shelton, CT (US);
Gary S. Jacobson, Norwalk, CT (US);
Michael J. Ramadei, Trumbull, CT (US);
David L. Rich, Shelton, CT (US);
Gary S. Jacobson, Norwalk, CT (US);
Pitney Bowes Inc., Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
A system and method for diagnosing one or more faults or one or more potential faults in a machine. The system and method has a communications module for communicating machine data between the machine and the system. It also has a fault recognition module for analyzing the machine data, which can determine one or more faults or potential faults in the machine. An expert system module having a fault tree is guided through only a truncated portion of the fault tree based upon output from the fault recognition module.