Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering: Volume 22 Issue 4

Problem-solving approaches in maintenance cost management: a literature review

Fazel Ansari, Madjid Fathi, Ulrich Seidenberg

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the use of problem-solving approaches in maintenance cost management (MCM). In particular, the paper aims to examine characteristics of…

Total productive maintenance, total quality management and operational performance: An empirical study of Indian pharmaceutical industry

Sachin Modgil, Sanjay Sharma

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of total productive maintenance (TPM) and total quality management (TQM) practices on operational performance and their…

Improvement maintenance implementation based on downtime analysis approach

My Abdelbar Koussaimi, Driss Bouami, Saïd Elfezazi

Improvement maintenance’s aim is identifying and implementing improvement action on equipment in service. The purpose of this paper is to propose an approach based on downtime’s…

Effects of condition-based maintenance on costs caused by unscheduled maintenance of aircraft

Mike Gerdes, Dieter Scholz, Diego Galar

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effects of condition-based maintenance based on unscheduled maintenance delays that were caused by ATA chapter 21 (air conditioning)…

Availability forecast of mining equipment

Franco Jefferds dos Santos Silva, Herbert Ricardo Garcia Viana, André Nasser Aquino Queiroz

The purpose of this paper is to present a methodology for forecasting the availability off-highway trucks used in a fleet for large transport operations of ore and sterile rock…

Reliability centered maintenance actions prioritization using fuzzy inference systems

Mahmoud Awad, Rami Afif As’ad

Deploying an effective maintenance strategy across an organization stands out as an essential risk mitigation measure that plays a critical role toward improving the reliability…

Optimal periodic inspection policy for systems generating environmental damage over a finite time horizon

Lazhar Tlili, Mehdi Radhoui, Anis Chelbi

The authors consider systems that generate damage to environment as they get older and degrade. The purpose of this paper is to develop an optimal condition-based maintenance…