Development of Asset Management Decision Support Tools for Power Equipment

Development of system decision support tools for behavioral trends monitoring of machinery maintenance in a competitive environment

The article is centred on software system development for manufacturing company that produces polyethylene bags using mostly conventional machines in a competitive world where each business enterprise desires to stand tall. This is meant to assist in gaining market shares, taking maintenance and production decisions by the dynamism and flexibilities embedded in the package as customers’ demand ...

Decision Support Procedure for Medical Equipment Maintenance Management

Hospitals outsource several activities of the service support in order to focus on the core healthcare production as maintenance service. Recently, faced to the sophistication and the costs of medical equipment that continue to escalate, governments have implemented new reforms to control costs and improve the efficiency and the quality. Hospitals become interested in minimizing the total opera...

Development of decision support tools for aquaculture: the POND experience

Decision support systems (DSS) are potentially valuable tools for assessing the economic and ecological impacts of alternative decisions on aquaculture production. In this paper, we discuss the philosophy of design, functional modules and application areas of POND, a decision tool that has been developed to allow analysis of pond aquaculture facilities by the use of a combination of simulation ...

Choice and development of decision support tools for the sustainable management of deer–forest systems

Situations where a natural resource is both an asset, as well as a threat, to the integrity of ecosystem function and biodiversity are difficult to manage sustainably. One such situation happens when native deer populations, which are managed for sport are overexploiting forests to a point where they severely compromise natural forest regeneration. Managers facing those situations need support ...

Asset Management Decision-making