A Concept of Intelligent e-Maintenance Decision Making System

Technological development resulted in increased complexity in both industrial machinery and production systems. The modern industry is increasingly demanded to work at high reliability, low environmental risks, and increased human safety while operating their processes at maximum yield. Therefore, prevention of failures and early detection of incipient machine and systems problems increases the useful operating life of equipment. The paper describes a concept of intelligent e-maintenance decision making system with effective utilization of expert system capability to condition based maintenance policy. The described system's concept incorporates actual condition monitoring information and modeling modules together with knowledge management module and via health assessment module the most appropriate decision making is realized. The intelligent strategy selection is numerically illustrated.