... Manufacturing systems Decision making Decision support systems Maintenance Man‐machine‐maintenance‐economy model Maintenance impact on company business Problem area identification Production time losses Maintenance dynamic decisions According to the survey that has been done, there is a need...

... important criteria as identified by the business. These systems aim at capturing the knowledge of a human expert in a specific field in the decision support system. This is an organised mathematical method for handling inherently imprecise data and is used to deal with reasoning that is approximate...

... the solution solves the problem); the cost of implementing the solution correctly; the consequences/costs, short‐term/long‐term if the agent/human is idle by taking no action; and the consequences/costs if the proposed solution in the case is wrongly deployed. Decision support systems...

... (Barlow and Proschan, 1965 ; McCall, 1965). Decision making Decision support systems Preventive maintenance In recent times, the high cost of maintaining complex industrial and the trend of automation have emphasized the importance of maintenance for diverse systems in order to preserve...

...Massimo Bertolini; Maurizio Bevilacqua Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop an easy and robust tool to develop a decision support system (DSS) for the inspection staff of oil pipelines. The aim is to predict “the class” of each spillage, with respect to some relevant variables...