A Fuzzy Logic Approach for Scheduling Preventive Maintenance in ERP System

Author

Fouad, Rami Hikmat ; Samhouri, Murad

Author_Institution

Ind. Eng. Dept., Hashemite Univ., Zarqa, Jordan

fYear

2011

fDate

12-14 Aug. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Many firms have proceeded to the adoption of Enterprise Resources Planning ERP solutions to maintain competitiveness. ERP is a packaged software system that enables enterprises to integrate operations, business processes and functions through common database. However, the majority of ERP systems do not support Preventive Maintenance (PM) scheduling process. The objective of PM is to minimize equipment downtime using the limited resources of an organization. Therefore, prioritizing PM activities for equipment is essential. In this paper, a fuzzy logic-based system for PM scheduling is proposed to interpret the linguistic variables extracted from expert´s knowledge for determining equipment priorities, which could be incorporated as a custom module in ERP systems. The system was tested and proved to be reliable in solving PM scheduling problem.

Keywords

enterprise resource planning; fuzzy logic; fuzzy reasoning; preventive maintenance; scheduling; software packages; ERP system; PM scheduling problem; database; enterprise resources planning; equipment downtime minimization; fuzzy inference system; fuzzy logic approach; packaged software system; preventive maintenance scheduling; Availability; Fuzzy logic; Job shop scheduling; Preventive maintenance;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Management and Service Science (MASS), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wuhan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6579-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMSS.2011.5999330

Filename

5999330