DEVELOPMENT OF A DATABASE FOR MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IN AN INDUSTRY

Abstract

• In the area of maintenance, much has been written about strategies, total productive maintenance, and reliability centred maintenance. In order to increase the reliability, capacity of the industrial plants it is necessary to apply world-class maintenance. However, an effective strategy must be supported with valuable resources, and information. In an industrial system to handle large number and complex equipments the quantum of information is so large that it is almost difficult to keep track and use them when necessary. The role of computerised maintenance management systems (CMMSs) is discussed in the present works, which is a powerful tool, and is necessary for obtaining information from raw data and support the decision-making process. Furthermore, a CMMS has been developed, customised and implemented for a heavy electrical equipment manufacturing company (BHEL, Haridwar). In addition, a maintenance maturity grid has been proposed to support the CMMS implementation. The grid shows that the complexity of the CMMS will increase as the maintenance function moves from a reactive to a proactive culture. The implemented CMMS aims to reduce total downtime and frequency of failures of the machines by improving the efficiency. and effectiveness of the maintenance force. The computer program simplifies and reduces the time of data capture compared to the used paper-based reporting system. It also provides the maintenance planners with a platform for decision analysis and support often ignored in the commercial CMMSs available in the market