Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering: Volume 21 Issue 1

Performance measurement and management for maintenance: a literature review

Aditya Parida, Uday Kumar, Diego Galar, Christer Stenström

The purpose of this paper is to provide a literature review of the performance measurement (PM) in maintenance. The authors aim to discuss the background and development of the PM…

Subsea maintenance service delivery: A multi-variable analysis model for predicting potential delays in scheduled services

Efosa E. Uyiomendo, Markeset Tore

The purpose of this paper is to propose a multi-variable analysis (MVA) model for predicting potential delays in the delivery of subsea inspection, maintenance and repair (IMR…

A degradation model for maintenance improvement in respect of cost and availability

Christophe Letot, Pierre Dehombreux, Edouard Rivière-Lorphèvre, Guillaume Fleurquin, Arnaud Lesage

The purpose of this paper is to highlight the need for degradation data in order to improve the reliability and the mean residual life estimation of a specific item of equipment…

Bottleneck-based opportunistic maintenance model for series production systems

Binghai Zhou, Jiadi Yu, Jianyi Shao, Damien Trentesaux

The purpose of this paper is to develop a bottleneck-based opportunistic maintenance (OM) model for the series production systems with the integration of the imperfect effect into…

Applying human factor analysis tools to a railway brake and wheel maintenance facility

Sarbjeet Singh, Rupesh Kumar, Uday Kumar

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate three techniques to extract human factor information from specific railway maintenance tasks. It describes the techniques and shows how…

Risk-based maintenance and remaining life assessment for gas turbines

Mohamed Khalifa, Faisal Khan, Joseph Thorp

– The purpose of this paper is to propose a quantitative model for risk-based maintenance and remaining life assessment for gas turbines.

Optimum time-censored simple ramp-stress accelerated life test sampling plan for the log-logistic distribution

Preeti Wanti Srivastava, Deepmala Sharma

Acceptance sampling plans are designed to decide about acceptance or rejection of a lot of products on the basis of sample drawn from it. Accelerating the life test helps in…