Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering: Volume 20 Issue 4

Downtime analysis of drilling machines and suggestions for improvements

Hussan S. Al-Chalabi, Jan Lundberg, Andi Wijaya, Behzad Ghodrati

The purpose of this paper is to analyse and compare the downtime of four drilling machines used in two underground mines in Sweden. The downtime of these machines was compared to…

Continuous improvement of maintenance process for the cement industry – a case study

Hani Shafeek

The purpose of this paper is to describe the most important areas of maintenance management system for heavy industries for helping maintenance mangers to focus on measuring the…

Exploring the performance effects of performance measurement system use in maintenance process

Jaakko Tätilä, Pekka Helkiö, Jan Holmström

The intended function of performance measurement is to support the effective management of an organisation and the improvement of organisational performance. However, how…

A blueprint paradox : Successful but unintended cross-national translation of total productive maintenance

Monica Rolfsen

– The purpose of this paper is to investigate if a manufacturing concept such as total productive maintenance (TPM) can be copied from one location to another.

Effectiveness of TPM implementation with and without integration with TQM in Indian manufacturing industries

Kanwarpreet Singh, Inderpreet Singh Ahuja

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate and extract various significant factors influencing the implementation of total quality management (TQM) and total productive maintenance…

Component based life cycle costing in replacement decisions

Javad Seif, Masoud Rabbani

The purpose of this paper is to assess life cycle costing (LCC) of the equipment in a more realistic, precise, and applicable manner, and to apply it to a real industrial problem…

Optimal lockout/tagout, preventive maintenance, human error and production policies of manufacturing systems with passive redundancy

Behnam Emami-Mehrgani, Sylvie Nadeau, Jean-Pierre Kenné

The analysis of the optimal production and preventive maintenance with lockout/tagout planning problem for a manufacturing system is presented in this paper. The considered…