the paper presents a multi-factor decision-making approach for prioritizing failure modes as an alternative to traditional approach of failure mode and effect analysis (fmea). the approach is based on the ‘technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution’ (topsis). the priority ranking is formulated on the basis of six parameters (failure occurrence, non-detection, maintainability...

Computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS) are required to manage and control asset, plant, and equipment maintenance in today’s hospitals. A CMMS is much more than just a way to schedule preventive maintenance (PM). By using a CMMS, you can create equipment logs to record events associated with a piece of equipment; create work orders automatically according to a schedule or manually f...

This research focuses on the development of a rule-based intelligent equipment trouble-shooting and maintenance platform using JAVA Expert System Shell (JESS) technology. A prototype system is designed and developed combining rule-based knowledge system and inference engine to support real-time collaborative equipment maintenance across geographical boundary. The main modules of the system incl...

abstract while computerized maintenance management system (cmms) enables maintenance managers and supervisors to access information about equipment, manpower and maintenance policies, there is still a need to facilitate getting data/information into the backend database where it can be utilized by the organization as information to make decisions regarding the operation of the organization. sig...