Inequality of mastery of knowledge and experience of each mechanic and the lack of knowledge of car owners to detect damage that occurs is a problem that is often encountered.
However, along with the progress of science and technology, more and more sides of life are using computers, not least in the world of mechanics, especially cars. Many workshops that already use computer systems to improve the effectiveness of their work.
On this occasion, an expert system was created to detect damage to the automatic transmission system on Nissan Grand Livina Ultimate 1.8 A / T. This expert system was made based on the web using the PHP programming language, Apache web server and MySql database to identify damage to Nissan Grand cars Livina Ultimate 1.8 A / T.
By using this expert system, it is expected that users of Nissan Grand Livina Ultimate 1.8 A / T who can use computers in particular and mechanics who repair Nissan Grand Livina Ultimate 1.8 A / T in general can be helped to detect damage to their cars.
In addition, this expert system can also be used as learning material for beginner inexperienced mechanics to be able to detect damage to the Nissan Grand Livina Ultimate 1.8 A / T without instructions from more experienced mechanics.
The method used in making this expert system is a forward chaining method and the search technique used is Best First Search.
In this expert system there is a knowledge base that is used to store existing rules, an inference engine for tracking results or goals, a development engine for updating a knowledge base and user interface to interact with users.
In this expert system there is an identification process facility which is accompanied by images and sounds as well as the ease of updating the knowledge base.
With the creation of this expert system, it is hoped that it can help users to detect damage to the automatic transmission system on Nissan Grand Livina Ultimate 1.8 A / T faster and more precisely.