Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering: Volume 17 Issue 4

Maintenance cost evaluation of a system to be used in Arctic conditions: a case study

Dina Kayrbekova, Abbas Barabadi, Tore Markeset

The purpose of this paper is to discuss operation and maintenance challenges under Arctic conditions and to propose a methodology to assess systems' reliability, maintainability…

The potential in strategic maintenance development

Antti Salonen, Marcus Bengtsson

The purpose of this paper is to exemplify and discuss the potential in strategic maintenance development.

Maintenance engineering in capital‐intensive manufacturing systems

Farhad Anvari, Rodger Edwards

The main purpose of the research is to develop a comprehensive model for measuring overall equipment effectiveness in the capital‐intensive industry such as steel, oil and…

Diagnosis of rotor bearings using logical analysis of data

Mohamad‐Ali Mortada, Soumaya Yacout, Aouni Lakis

The purpose of this paper is to test the applicability and the performance of an approach called logical analysis of data (LAD) on the detection of faults in rotating machinery…

Evaluating condition based maintenance effectiveness for two processes in series

Javid Koochaki, Jos Bokhorst, Hans Wortmann, Warse Klingenberg

This paper seeks to study maintenance policies on a plant‐wide level. It focuses on the effectiveness of condition‐based maintenance (CBM). It highlights the role of the…

Optimal replacement with minimal repair policy for a system operating over a random time horizon

Abdelhakim Khatab, Nidhal Rezg, Daoud Ait‐Kadi

This paper aims to investigate the optimization of the replacement with minimal repair policy for a system which experiences a time horizon of random length. Under such policy…