Medium Industries

Small and Medium Industries (SMI) are the key contributors to economic growth in developing countries. SMI contributes in generating employment and engage in small and medium-scale manufacturing lines to generate profit and employment. In fact, the largest portion of manufacturing firms fall into SMI categories and the SMI businesses are the backbone of the large-scale industry (Shamsuddin et al. (2004)). However, Junaidah (2007) reported that SMIs lacking appropriate decision making. According to her, SMI do not have a good system to evaluate the overall system of machines, contractors performance and their business's principles. Therefore, maintenance decision support system (DSS) is essential to ensure maintainability and reliability of equipments in industries. Poor machinery maintenance management will result in capacity loss, poor product quality and customer dissatisfaction. These downturns usually occur depending on the efficiency of the reliability programs executed by the organization. This chapter reveals on the important DSS models i.e. Decision Making Grid (DMG) to be embedded with computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) to aid maintenance strategies for the machines as an adoption of technology management in SMI