Description

The condition of a Device or a Component of a device is useful for understanding its health status and performance, as well as possible maintenance actions needed. For these reasons, the following information is envisioned to be represented for a Device or Component:

• Indicators of health status,
• Indicators of operating time and number of actions performed since installation or maintenance,
• Indicators of (estimated) remaining lifetime based on the device information provided by suppliers,
• Device modes (e.g., operating, sleep, maintenance, off) and Methods to trigger changes.

For maintenance purposes, the possibility to trigger, record, and retrieve information related to maintenance activities is seen as valuable.

Maintenance activities can be recurrent, periodic, or ad-hoc. They can be vendor defined (e.g., yearly maintenance) or user defined (e.g., calibration). Maintenance activities may be initiated based on specific conditions related to the health and condition of a Device or a Component. History with dates and details of actions performed on a Device or a Component should be available.

Addressed in Sections: 0 7.1.1,