Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering: Volume 10 Issue 3

Risk‐based maintenance model for offshore oil and gas pipelines: a case study

Prasanta Kumar Dey, Stephen O. Ogunlana, Sittichai Naksuksakul

Offshore oil and gas pipelines are vulnerable to environment as any leak and burst in pipelines cause oil/gas spill resulting in huge negative impacts on marine lives. Breakdown…

Turnaround maintenance in petrochemical industry: practices and suggested improvements

Salih O. Duffuaa, M.A. Ben Daya

Turnaround maintenance (TAM) is an essential activity in process industry. It plays an important role in maintaining consistent productive capacity. It is a major project that…

A decision analysis model for maintenance policy selection using a CMMS

Ashraf W. Labib

In this paper, an investigation of the characteristics of computerised maintenance management systems (CMMSs) is carried out to highlight the need for them in industry and…

Evaluation of plant maintenance based on data envelopment analysis

Jian Liu, De‐jie Yu

Precise and logical plant maintenance evaluation, which enables enterprise to distinguish its most suitable maintenance pattern for application, is the base of improvement in…

Decision rules for a maintenance database

Angel M. Gento

In the present time, there are large databases with parameters related to the maintenance of different equipment and installations. Given that manual analysis of sensors connected…

Subjective priors for maintenance models

David F. Percy

Successful strategies for maintenance require good decisions and we commonly use stochastic reliability models to help this process. These models involve unknown parameters, so we…