Michael Douglas Nicholas

US Patent:

20210380076, Dec 9, 2021

Filed:

Aug 12, 2021

Appl. No.:

17/400490

Inventors:

Anthony Peter GRIFFITHS - Newton, GB
Christopher Lee DAVIES - Sketty, GB
Martyn Neil JONES - Coed Darcy, GB
Stephen David NORRIS - London, GB
Christopher George REED - London, GB
Patrick James TUDOR - Sketty, GB
Timothy Peter DAVIS - Warwick, GB
David Hong Sau CHUNG - London, GB
Michael Paul NICHOLAS - Ann Arbor MI, US
Kelly Marie NOCK - Cardiff, GB
Jonathan Michael PHILLIPS - Bridgend, GB
Ashley Steven Burgess - St. Thomas, GB
Nicholas Peter Rees - London, GB
Steffan Rees - London, GB

International Classification:

B60S 5/00
G05B 23/02
G07C 5/08

Abstract:

A method of producing vehicles comprises: in a vehicle production process, manufacturing vehicle components of different types, and assembling the vehicle components to form vehicles; creating a set of vehicle records, each being a record of one of the vehicles entering active service; performing vehicle repairs on a subset of the vehicles after they have entered active service; creating a respective record of each of the vehicle repairs, each of which comprises or indicates a vehicle age or usage value, and records a vehicle component fault identified in the vehicle repair; receiving at a data processing stage the vehicle records and vehicle repair records, wherein a predictive algorithm executed at the data processing stage processes the received records so as to, for each type of vehicle component: 1) identify a respective set of the vehicle repair records relating to that type of vehicle component, and 2) use the respective set of vehicle repair records to predict a respective number of or resource value for vehicle component faults of that type for the set of vehicle records based on: a number of vehicles recorded in the set of vehicle records, and a current age or usage of each of the recorded vehicles; comparing the predictions for the different vehicle component types to identify a problem with a particular one of the vehicle component types; and adapting the vehicle production process, so as to remedy the identified problem with the particular vehicle component type for later vehicles produced in the adapted vehicle production process.

US Patent:

20210070258, Mar 11, 2021

Filed:

Mar 30, 2020

Appl. No.:

16/834036

Inventors:

- Swansea, GB
Anthony Peter GRIFFITHS - Newton, GB
Christopher Lee DAVIES - Sketty, GB
Martyn Neil JONES - Coed Darcy, GB
Stephen David NORRIS - London, GB
Christopher George REED - London, GB
Patrick James TUDOR - Sketty, GB
Timothy Peter DAVIS - Warwick, GB
David Hong Sau CHUNG - London, GB
Michael Paul NICHOLAS - Ann Arbor MI, US
Kelly Marie NOCK - Cardiff, GB
Jonathan Michael PHILLIPS - Bridgend, GB
Ashley Steven Burgess - St. Thomas, GB
Nicholas Peter Rees - London, GB
Steffan Rees - London, GB

International Classification:

B60S 5/00
G05B 23/02
G07C 5/08

Abstract:

A method of producing vehicles comprises: in a vehicle production process, manufacturing vehicle components of different types, and assembling the vehicle components to form vehicles; creating a set of vehicle records, each being a record of one of the vehicles entering active service; performing vehicle repairs on a subset of the vehicles after they have entered active service; creating a respective record of each of the vehicle repairs, each of which comprises or indicates a vehicle age or usage value, and records a vehicle component fault identified in the vehicle repair; to receiving at a data processing stage the vehicle records and vehicle repair records, wherein a predictive algorithm executed at the data processing stage processes the received records so as to, for each type of vehicle component: 1) identify a respective set of the vehicle repair records relating to that type of vehicle component, and 2) use the respective set of vehicle repair records to predict a respective number of or resource value for vehicle component faults of that type for the set of vehicle records based on: a number of vehicles recorded in the set of vehicle records, and a current age or usage of each of the recorded vehicles; comparing the predictions for the different vehicle component types to identify a problem with a particular one of the vehicle component types; and adapting the vehicle production process, so as to remedy the identified problem with the particular vehicle component type for later vehicles produced in the adapted vehicle production process.