Intelligent decision support system for equipment diagnosis and maintenance management

Summary form only given. This paper reports the research project which has been carried out at the Central Textiles (HK) Ltd. in Hong Kong. The main objective of the project is to help the company to approach an integrated maintenance management system by using artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. This AI-based maintenance management system schedules and controls maintenance activities under considerations of not only the working conditions of equipment in the company but also the production quality, production system efficiency and production cost.