Maintenance is an indispensable part of the business process and plays an important role in
an organisation's success and survival. The main purpose of maintenance is to ensure …

Manufacturing equipment, such as numerical controlled machines and assembly cranes,
requires constant maintenance and service in their operating lifecycle. Equipment …

This paper deals with knowledge capitalization in maintenance especially in diagnosis and
repair of industrial equipments. The goal is to propose a method of knowledge capitalization …

Information technology has promoted our society gradually into knowledge economy from
product economy. Value creation requires more and more knowledge and information to …

Knowledge management (KM) is attracting considerable attention as many organizations
realize that they compete in a knowledge economy. Therefore, a key source of sustainable …

Distributed environments, technological evolution, outsourcing market and information
technology (IT) are factors that considerably influence current and future industrial …

Knowledge based on personal experience (tacit knowledge) acquired in problem solving
actions and in maintenance actions is the fundamental basis for maintenance technicians in …

A high importance of effective Knowledge Management (KM) is well recognised in a number
of manufacturing enterprises. There is still, however, a clear need to further reinforce …

Maintenance decision making becomes more and more a management concern. Some
decades ago, maintenance was still often considered as an unavoidable side effect of …

The fourth industrial revolution is increasingly implemented in most fields and categories of
industry. The use of several highly developed technologies generates huge amounts of …