Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering: Volume 2 Issue 3

Total quality maintenance: An approach for continuous reduction in costs of quality products

Basim Al‐Najjar

Discusses the importance of total quality maintenance (TQMain), considering that the common thread in achieving and maintaining high overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) is the…

Reducing preventive maintenance cost error caused by uncertainty

Michael P. Cavalier, Gerald M. Knapp

Maintenance managers must often make preventive maintenance (PM) decisions based on limited historical failure data. These small data sets introduce significant uncertainties…

Achieving quality through supportability: Part II ‐ mathematical modelling

Caroline Smith, Jezdimir Knezevic

In the current drive to improve product quality through its reliability, maintainability and supportability characteristics, supportability has emerged as the key area in which…

Evaluation of overhaul/replacement policy for a fleet of buses

A.B.M. Zohrul Kabir

Presents a case study on overhaul/replacement policy for a fleet of buses owned by a Saudi Arabian transport company. Data on overhaul and operational costs for two types of bus…

Cost‐optimal maintenance policies with increasing hazard rate

C. Rami Reddy, D. Vijaya Bhaskara Rao

Considers a system with two states ‐ operating and failed. The system undergoes overhauls preventively at scheduled times and the successive overhaul times constitute…

Stochastic analysis of a two‐unit cold standby system with maximum repair time and correlated failures and repairs

Rakesh Gupta, S.Z. Mumtaz

Investigates a stochastic model of a two identical unit cold standby system. Assumes that, if repair of the failed unit is not completed within a specified time, then an order is…