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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 25, 2008
Filed:
Sep. 04, 2001
Michael Wetzer, Redwood City, CA (US);
Gary R. Garrow, Burbank, CA (US);
David P. West, Ii, Newnan, GA (US);
Patrick E. Weir, San Francisco, CA (US);
Gary Ashby, Kent, GB;
Charles P. Newton, Iii, Rock Hill, SC (US);
Michael Wetzer, Redwood City, CA (US);
Gary R. Garrow, Burbank, CA (US);
David P. West, II, Newnan, GA (US);
Patrick E. Weir, San Francisco, CA (US);
Gary Ashby, Kent, GB;
Charles P. Newton, III, Rock Hill, SC (US);
Accenture Global Services GmbH, Schaffhausen, CH;
Abstract
A method for planning, scheduling and allocation of maintenance, repair and overhaul resources includes establishing the configuration definition database, establishing a maintenance task database based on the configuration, determining the resource requirements for the maintenance tasks, optimizing the deployment of resources for those maintenance tasks in a specified time window based on resource requirements, resource availability, current maintenance execution status of equipment and activity-based cost models, creating allocation transactions to assign the resources to the specific tasks and initiating the kitting of material.