Abstract:
The aim of this work was to decrease maintenance data searching time of heavy equipment
for piling work utilizing computer program in a maintenance workshop. According to recorded
time, searching one maintenance item took about 24.4 minutes. A clark must search the
maintenance document from several files in cabinets. In 2009, there were 6,125 items searched.
Therefore the total searching time was 149,327.5 minutes or 2,488.8 hours. To solve this
problem, a computer program using Microsoft Access 2007 was written. The users must have
username and password for security reason. After using this program, the searching time of one
item was 0.5 minute. Therefore, using the number of searching in 2009, the searching time was
only 53.1 hours. The decreasing was 2,435.7 hours or 97.9 percent reduction.