Background

In order to conduct business with DaimlerChrysler, Ford Motor Company, and General Motors Corporation, a firm must be QS-9000 registered. One particular requirement of QS-9000 is to keep maintenance on all machines and keep a log of that maintenance. Since Smoky Mountain Machining, Inc., SMM, is QS-9000 registered; they must maintain this requirement and other requirements that QS-9000 specifies to sustain business with these ?Big Three? auto manufacturers. Fulfilling requirements is not SMM?s way of doing business. They like to ?continuously improve their quality process and quality requirements?. Building an application to remind the user when maintenance is needed and keeping track of that maintenance will greatly benefit the organization and accomplish their mission.

Project Description

This application allows adding, deleting, and editing of equipment manufacturers, equipment vendors, equipment, inventory manufactures, inventory vendors, inventory, and tasks. When equipment is added in the database, a maintenance task can be written up for that piece of equipment and on the specified day, it will remind the user when maintenance is needed on that piece of equipment. After the maintenance is completed, the work order can be closed and saved to show that maintenance has been completed.

Conclusion

Analyzing, designing, implementing, and testing this project has been an incredible learning experience. This project has allowed me to understand the importance of the theories and concepts taught in the computer science curriculum, and how beneficial they became to accomplish this real world application.