Study on intelligent maintenance decision support system using for power plant equipment

With the developing of industry, maintenance has become an important factor that influences survival and development of business. As an interdisciplinary activity, maintenance management needs technical support from computer decision support system when using that knowledge. There are numerous pieces of equipment in a power plant, but the maintenance requirements are different for different equipment. Making condition based maintenance in a power plant is a systemic and integrative maintenance management activity which needs a special maintenance decision support system. As a main developing direction of decision support system, intelligent decision support system has got a comprehensive and successful application in many domains. According to the characteristic of operation and maintenance in a power plant, an intelligent maintenance decision support system is designed in this paper where the system goal, function, framework and platform are particularly introduced.