Process and method for uniform maintenance for conveyance apparatuses

Abstract

A system and a process are provided for uniformly recording and storing compliance and maintenance information independent of specific conveyance apparatus service provider. Such a system and a process assists the jurisdiction and all parties involved in these service areas with documenting all work performed, documenting work that needs to be performed, accessing the necessary information to make sure the work is performed properly and timely, and enforcing the scheduled maintenance requirements for the conveyance apparatus to reduce liability for the parties responsible for the maintenance.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program with instructions which when executed by at least one processing unit of a computing device, provides a uniform conveyance maintenance system, the program comprising instructions for:
 receiving from a user a user identification;   authorizing the user to at least one predetermined level of authorization to access and alter a database depending on the user identification;   receiving from the user an input conveyance identification and one or more input parameters of the input conveyance identification;   identifying an input conveyance type corresponding to the input conveyance identification from a list of conveyance types in the database of information stored in a memory device;   retrieving one or more archived parameters of the input conveyance type from the database;   generating one or more maintenance data by a predetermined calculation algorithm using the input conveyance type, the one or more input parameters and the one or more archived parameters of the input conveyance type; and   storing the one or more maintenance data in the database.   
     
     
         2 . The non-transitory computer readable medium of  claim 1 , wherein
 the one or more input parameters comprise an inspection input, repair input and a work duration input of the input conveyance identification,   the one or more archived parameters comprise an inspection history, a repair history and a work duration history, and   the predetermined level of authorization comprises authorization to alter the archived parameters in the database.   
     
     
         3 . The non-transitory computer readable medium of  claim 2 ,
 wherein
 the one or more maintenance data comprise one or more maintenance schedule data, and 
 the predetermined calculation algorithm calculates the one or more maintenance schedule data using the one or more archived parameters based on the input conveyance type, 
   and further comprising: allowing the user to view the one or more maintenance schedule data.   
     
     
         4 . The non-transitory computer readable medium of  claim 2 , further comprising updating the archived parameters in the database with the one or more input parameters. 
     
     
         5 . The non-transitory computer readable medium of  claim 1 , wherein the one or more archived parameters comprise a manufacturer, a year, a frequency of use, and an environmental exposure, an inspection history, a repair history, and a work duration history. 
     
     
         6 . The non-transitory computer readable medium of  claim 5 , wherein
 the one or more input parameters comprise a jurisdiction, and   the one or more maintenance data comprise one or more maintenance schedule data and one or more maintenance compliance data, and   the predetermined level of authorization comprises authorization to access the maintenance data.   
     
     
         7 . The non-transitory computer readable medium of  claim 6 , wherein the predetermined calculation algorithm calculates the one or more maintenance schedule data using the one or more archived parameters based on the input conveyance type, compares the one or more maintenance schedule data with the one or more input parameters, and generates the one or more maintenance compliance data. 
     
     
         8 . The non-transitory computer readable medium of  claim 1 , wherein the predetermined level of authorization comprises authorization to alter the archived parameters in the database and authorization to access the maintenance data. 
     
     
         9 . The non-transitory computer readable medium of  claim 1 , wherein
 the one or more archived parameters comprise an inspection history, a repair history and a work duration history, and   the one of predetermined levels of authorization comprises authorization to access the work duration history.   
     
     
         10 . A computer-implemented method for uniform conveyance maintenance, the method comprising:
 storing in a database of a computer system one or more archived parameters describing at least one conveyance;   defining a predetermined calculation algorithm corresponding to the one or more parameters;   receiving from a user a user identification;   authorizing the user to at least one predetermined level of authorization to access and alter a database depending on the user identification;   receiving from the user an input conveyance identification and one or more input parameters of the input conveyance identification;   retrieving one or more archived parameters of the input conveyance type from the database;   generating one or more maintenance data by a predetermined calculation algorithm using the input conveyance type, the one or more input parameters and the one or more archived parameters of the input conveyance type; and   using the one or more maintenance data to produce a compliance report.   
     
     
         11 . The computer-implemented method of  claim 10 , wherein the predetermined level of authorization comprises authorization to alter the archived parameters in the database. 
     
     
         12 . The computer-implemented method of  claim 10 , wherein the predetermined level of authorization comprises authorization to access the maintenance data. 
     
     
         13 . The computer-implemented method of  claim 10 , wherein
 the one or more archived parameters comprise an inspection history, a repair history and a work duration history, and   the predetermined level of authorization comprises authorization to access the work duration history.   
     
     
         14 . The computer-implemented method of  claim 10 , wherein
 the one or more maintenance data comprises one or more maintenance schedule, and   the predetermined calculation algorithm calculates the one or more maintenance schedule data using the one or more archived parameters based on the input conveyance type.   
     
     
         15 . The computer-implemented method of  claim 14 , wherein the compliance report further comprises the one or more maintenance schedule. 
     
     
         16 . The computer-implemented method of  claim 14 , wherein
 the one or more input parameters comprise a jurisdiction, and   using the one or more maintenance data to produce a compliance report further comprises producing a jurisdictional compliance form populated by the one or more maintenance schedule.