Portable plant preventive maintenance management system

This paper presents the requirements, design and prototype implementation of a system for managing Preventive Maintenance (PM) in an industrial plant. The presented system offers an alternative approach that integrates portability and computerized features into the manual paper-based PM system. The requirements and design were derived based on a study made at one of the industrial plants. The proposed portable system consists of three components namely client at personal computer, client at mobile device and server. These components were implemented in order to enable the users to access the system even in the restricted place like a plant, to reduce human errors as well as the time taken to manage PM jobs. Some of the user interfaces of the developed prototype are also presented in the paper to demonstrate the viability of the proposed approach.