| Abstract: | Many organizations have begun to realize the importance of a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) in an increasingly competitive manufacturing environment. This article proposes an object-oriented approach to the design and development of a CMMS that is intended to help the decision making of the maintenance manager. To overcome problems of conventional CMMS, the approach presents the transformation of the maintenance management system framework into an object-oriented maintenance management system (OMMS). The IDEF (Icam DEFinition) method is proposed to improve systems analysis and design of the CMMS in the object-oriented approach. © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. |
