Abstract:
In Heavy Machinery Companies the cost of the heavy
machinery and the spare parts is very high and most of the spare
parts are not available in the local market. And any breakdown will
cause large loss in profit and assets.
This research studies the management of maintenance activities
including the spare parts needed in semi –trail towing vehicles
used in Al Shigara Heavy Machinery Company as a case study and
designing a computerized maintenance management system
(CMMS) for programming maintenance operations, and
forecasting the spare parts demand.
The information for the preventive maintenance tasks, the time
intervals, the mileage intervals and the spare parts needed for the
semi –trail towing vehicles used in the company are collected from
catalogues. Other Information is taken from the records about the
breakdowns and the corrective maintenance tasks that occurred in
the past years and the spare parts used.
Using all the information and data collected in forecasting the
total annual need for spare parts making it easier to purchase
economic amounts of the spare parts. Applying a PM program to
reduce the breakdowns; leading to better employment of invested
capital.
