Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering: Volume 11 Issue 1

Maintenance‐related losses at the Swedish Rail

Mattias Holmgren

The purpose of this study is to identify maintenance related losses, and their causes, in order to describe different deviations in the maintenance process that contributes to…

TPM can go beyond maintenance: excerpt from a case implementation

Shamsuddin Ahmed, Masjuki Hj. Hassan, Zahari Taha

The aim of this paper is to present a generic model on using the total productive maintenance (TPM) concept in conjunction with ecology oriented manufacturing (EOM) and 5S…

Scheduling with different maintenance policies in a textile company

Wen‐Jinn Chen, Ching‐Jong Liao

Machine maintenance is essential in many industries. How to schedule maintenance becomes especially important when achieving high shop performance is desired. This paper aims to…

Product support strategy: conventional versus functional products

Tore Markeset, Uday Kumar

Most advanced durable industrial products need some kind of support to compensate for weaknesses in design or in product exploitation. Aims to examine different scenarios for…

Mathematical modeling of wear rate of non‐repairable parts and their replacement strategies: Cement mill liners as a case study

Nader S. Santarisi, Raid M. Almomany

The cement industry provides high wear environment for many casting units which results in high production costs and consumes both the time and efforts of different available…

Note on optimal redundant policies for reliability models

Toshio Nakagawa, Kazumi Yasui

The reliabilities of systems are generally improved as units of redundancy increase. This paper aims to summarize the authors' results.

Effective Maintenance Management Risk and Reliability Strategies for Optimizing Performance

Abdul Raouf

Predictive Maintenance of Pumps Using Condition Monitoring

Abdul Raouf S., P. Engr. (Ont.) P. Engr. (Ont.)