Perpustakaan Digital ITB

Technical systems for production are increasingly automate, which means that they have to work reliably. Therefore, the rapidly expanding concept of maintenance, where people would say that maintaining a process that allows the management of the technical condition and reliability during the entire life cycle of the system. Traditionally, maintenance has been considered as a support function, non-productive and not a core function adding little value to business. However it has been noticed that many manufacturing industries have used various approaches to improve maintenance effectiveness. An analysis of the problem of machines and industrial systems maintenance as well as maintenance strategies and maintenance management process is presented in this paper. Furthermore, a development process of traditional and modern maintenance management information system is given. The possibility of development maintenance management, applying decision support systems and expert systems, are presented, at the end.