Title: Monitoring of assets and assessment of cost

Biography:

Zul-Atfi Ismail is working as senior lecturer at University Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP) under the Civil Engineering Division, School of Environmental Engineering. He has been actively conducting research in the field of building maintenance in the national and international level. His experience in precast buildings industry and Building Information Modelling (BIM) modeler is essential to link academic research with industrial practicality. His expertise in building diagnosis and Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS) both linked to precast concrete buildings respectively. His research with industrial partners won several national awards in the areas of Construction Innovation and Technology.

Abstract

Monitoring of assets and assessment of cost system is designed to improve the inventory management, works orders and defect assessment using pareto concept for handling the maintenance management processes. The system is used to monitor the asset condition during inspection. The system started from the technician to access and validates the works orders at website. The work orders report contents the information of time table for each defect to support the management of asset inventory. The statistic shows the asset operation schedule that undertaking by technician in the particular duration. The engineer tracks the asset condition and real time location of the defect occur with pareto concept to find out the maintenance priority or most ad hoc problems of the asset. Meanwhile, the database collection in the system, for instances, services level and reliability provides the awareness for the engineer to improve the decision for the ad hoc and preventive maintenance planning to the concerned asset. All the information is automatically sent to the system and also can be printed out through the system. The product can be divided into four main components, which are decision making support (Visual Basic.NET), pareto concept and central database (MS Access). Both of components play a different role in the system that wills potential to improve the management of asset maintenance effectively using the computerised technology.