Knowledge Capture and Re-use in Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul

This proposal is for creation of a unique maintenance advisory system which is created and maintained through input by technicians. The system is useful to people and machines with expertise in a task and domain because it gives them a way of reusing hardreasoning done in the past. It is equally useful, however, to those who know little about a task or domain. Consider, for example, a technician who has never done any aircraft repairs yet has been given an assignment to repair an engine. His ownmaintenance experience won't help him. But if he remembered previous repairs he'd seen by others under circumstances similar to those he has to deal with, he could use an appropriate example to get started. The proposed system emulates