Computer Application for Maintenance Planning and Scheduling of Industrial Plant
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2012-01
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International Institute for Science, Technology and Education
Abstract
Plant maintenance involves all activities carried out on a machine to ensure a zero downtime of operation.
Maintenance activities vary from one industry to the other but the basic maintenance activities are mainly to ensure
continuous operations of equipment, plant and machineries.
Over the past few decades, the various industrial work activities and maintenance operations are performed without a
concrete plan (schedule) or are performed via manual paper work. Industrial operations are usually complex and
recurrent activities. Analysis has shown that lack or insufficient maintenance coordination, has accounted for the
poor performances and inefficiencies of many industries. Thus, it is pertinent to deduce a planned maintenance
organizer or a computer aided design for the planning and scheduling of industrial work activities. This becomes
important as computer has revolutionalized industrial activities with the development of modern high level computer
programming languages such as visual basic by Microsoft among others.