ONLINE COMPUTER AIDED TROUBLESHOOTING IN AUTOMOBILE

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Title page                        Certification                          

Dedication                      

Acknowledgement                   

Table of Contents              

Abstract                          

CHAPTER ONE

1. Introduction                                                                           
   1. Aims of the study                                                                 
   1. Significance of the study                                                               
   1. Methodology                                                                         
   1. Scope & Limitation                                                               
   1. Organization of the project                                        
   1. Definition of terms used                                                               

CHAPTER TWO

LITERATURE REVIEW

• History of  Mag-Ben Automotive Technology Limited               
  • Organization chart                                                                         
  • Expert System                                                            
  • Advantages & Disadvantages Of Expert System                      
  • The World Wide Web                                                          
  • Web Server                                                                                    

CHAPTER THREE

• Analysis Of The Existing System                                       
  • Description Of The Existing System                                            
  • Problems of The Existing System                            
  • Description Of The Proposed System                               
  • Advantages The Proposed System                                   
  • Disadvantages Of The Proposed System                                  

CHAPTER FOUR

• System Design                                                                     
  • System Specification                                                           
  • System Implementation                                                                
  • Choice Of Programming Language                                            
  • System Requirement                                                           
  • Change over Techniques                                                             
  • Documentation & System Evaluation                                
  • System Testing                                                                    
  • CHAPTER FIVE

5.0    Summary                                                                              

5.1    Recommendation                                                                          

5.2    Conclusion                                                                                     

References                                                                                              

Program Design Interface                                                            

Flow Chart                                                                                      

Program Codes                                                                             

ABSTRACT

The world of I.T is taking over everything on this planet and the use of computers in our day to day activity is one of the major achievements of this century. Computer can be used for virtually everything we humans can do and it makes life easy for us.

Computer Aided Troubleshooting in automobile is the use of computer to help individuals or automobile engineers in detecting faults and providing them with the appropriate solution. This can only be achieved by building an expert system. One of the reasons for this research is to preserve the knowledge of a leading expert in the field of study after his death.

Also, this expert system will make junior workers rise to equal level with the engineers where there are no enough leading engineers.

CHAPTER ONE

1.0    INTRODUCTION

Automated troubleshooting as the name implies is the use of computer to help the automobile engineers in detecting faults and providing solution to the fault detected in a vehicle. It can also be said to be the use of computer to troubleshoot in an automobile industry.

This can only be achieved by building an Expert System. An Expert System is software that uses a knowledge base of human expertise for problem solving, or clarifies uncertainties where normally one or more human experts would need to be consulted.

Expert systems were introduced by researchers in the Stanford Heuristic Programming Project, including the “father of expert systems” Edward Feigenbaum. Principal contributors to the technology were Bruce Buchanan, Randall Davis, Carli Scott, and others at Stanford.

Expert systems are most valuable to organizations that have a high-level of know-how experience and expertise that cannot be easily transferred to other members.

They are designed to carry the intelligence and information found in the intellect of experts and provide this knowledge to other members of the organization for problem-solving purposes.

This project will take into consideration, most of the common faults associated with automobile and ways to rectify such faults. This project is a step on the right direction to get the automobile industries highly computerized.

1.1    AIMS AND OBJECTIVES  OF THE STUDY

The automobile engineers have a number of problems in finding faults and rectifying the detected faults, this is due to the fact that all the processes involved are done manually. The main objective of this project is to create an online computerization of an automobile industry. The main aims include:

• To save time: A lot of time is conserved when using computer
• To reduce or minimize fatigue: Human beings experience fatigue due to overwork, illness and their state of mind and this may cause delay but when an expert system is built, such experiences does not occur as long as the basic requirements for the environment are provided
• To make work easier to learn and understandable
• To make work faster and highly efficient.

1.2    SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

The significance of this study is to let the individuals, or automobile engineers have adequate understanding of what an expert system is and this has been introduced to various fields. By this, a simple but descriptive explanation to guide engineers on how to detect fault in an automobile and provide the appropriate solution to the fault detected, and also give hints on maintaining an automobile. This project is presented in such a way that the technical faults that occur in a vehicle can be corrected successfully and faster.