Study on Maintenance Method Intelligent Decision Support System Used for Power Plant Equipment

With the development of industry, maintenance has become an important factor that influences survival and development of a corporation. It is an effective way for a power plant to achieve management modernization and enhance market competition by making condition based maintenance. There are numerous pieces of equipment in a power plant, but the maintenance requirement is different for respective equipment, so selecting appropriate maintenance method is the first step of making condition based maintenance in a power plant. In the course of maintenance method selection, there are a lot of qualitative and quantitative analyses to do, so technical support from computer decision support system is necessary. According to the characteristic of condition based maintenance in a power plant, a maintenance method intelligent decision support system used for power plant equipment is designed in this paper where the system´s goal, function and architecture are particularly introduced.