DATA MANAGEMENT FOR MAINTENANCE ENGINEERS

Cryphon (2005) commented that each data point a maintenance engineers keeps is worth money to his or her organization.If such data is irretrievable, the efforts and expense of time and energy that have been invested in the data management,is uncompromised as it affects the efficiency of the organization, For this reason, maintenance engineers has a vested interest in the data.Often data management computer are used and a simple approach towards data management is to search by file name and folder.Many maintenance engineers managed data through files and having them across numerous computers and the file name and folders structure are used to locate data sets.However,this simple and straight forward does not result in serious efficiency that will limit the benefit of the engineers or gain from the data they are paid to collect.sometime maintenance engineers encounter problems in data management in the following circumstances,using file name and folder to describe test data only,using computer operating system to locate test data,making telephone calls and sending e-mails to locate test data, failing to trace past test data.,re-running test because of data loss these are the systoms associated with the mishandling of test data.To get the most from the data management investment, the maintenance engineers needs tools and architecture for data management otherwise they will find it difficult to adentified the data into the results they need to derive from the constants.In the case of engineering design,engineer can run thousand of test on a new product,when virtual instrumentation becomes more sophisticated, There will be increasing number of types of instruments measurements. these will lead to an exponential growth in the test data which may be saved in numerous desktop computers.An engineer cannot locate or interpret,much of these scattered data without the knowledge of specific individuals such problems exist even with standard  number and file names