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  "description": "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…",
  "path": "/patents/1305903",
  "publishedAt": "2021-12-09T00:00:00.000Z",
  "site": "at://did:plc:oql6ds5vnff4ugar6rruliwd/site.standard.publication/3mn3ohu7oxx5w",
  "tags": [
    "B60S5/00",
    "We Predict Limited"
  ],
  "textContent": "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.",
  "title": "Predicting Vehicle Repair Operations"
}