A set of technical, administrative and management activities are done in the life cycle of equipment, to be located in good condition and have proper and expected functioning. This is refers to be, maintenance management system (MMS). The framework and models of assessment in order to enhance effectiveness of a MMS could be proposed in two categories: qualitative and quantitative. In this resea...

Semantic Designs, Inc. is producing a prototype Design Maintenance System (DMS), a fundamentally different software engineering environment. It is a semantically-based software engineering environment—one which emphasizes tool-supported design capture and modification. We preserve design knowledge by requiring and enabling the design to be updated as a natural by-product of maintenance acts. DM...

The Answer Garden supports knowledge sharing in two intertwined ways: by making relevant information retrievable and by mediating access to people with knowledge. We present a case study in which the Answer Garden approach was applied to encourage knowledge sharing in maintenance engineering of a steel mill. The results show that the sheer amount of drawings and the long history of changing cla...

Knowledge based on personal experience (tacit knowledge) acquired in problem solving actions and maintenance is the fundamental basis for technicians companies with great physical assets. Generally, there no proper policy managing strategic knowledge its capture. In this article, through qualitative studies (grounded theory) surveys conducted technicians, aim was to obtain perception of technic...