Design of a Computerized Maintenance Management System : Application study

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.