Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering: Volume 26 Issue 3

Corrosion loop development of oil and gas piping system based on machine learning and group technology method

Andika Rachman, R.M. Chandima Ratnayake

Corrosion loop development is an integral part of the risk-based inspection (RBI) methodology. The corrosion loop approach allows a group of piping to be analyzed simultaneously…

Presenting the model in improving maintenance and excellence in organizational culture and reliability in Iran tile and ceramic industries

Alireza Pezeshkian, Naser Hamidi

In order to increase productivity and create added value in ceramic and tile industries of Iran, the role of physical assets including machinery, equipment and utilities is very…

Assessing the information waste in maintenance management processes

Salla Marttonen-Arola, David Baglee

Due to recent technological developments, many maintenance managers become overwhelmed by the vast amount of data available to support their decision making. The purpose of this…

Prediction of restoration factor for various maintenance types of railway systems using analytical hierarchy process

Tapash Kumar Das, Neeraj Kumar Goyal, Anirudh Gautam

For repairable systems (RSs), reliability estimation is generally performed using virtual age models. Virtual age models consider the effect of maintenance actions by reducing…

Diagnosis of wind turbine faults using generator current signature analysis: a review

Yuri Merizalde, Luis Hernández-Callejo, Oscar Duque-Pérez, Víctor Alonso-Gómez

Despite the wide dissemination and application of current signature analysis (CSA) in general industry, CSA is not commonly used in the wind industry, where the use of vibration…

Maintenance practices and parameters for marine mechanical systems: a review

David Kimera, Fillemon Nduvu Nangolo

The purpose of this paper is to review maintenance practices, tools and parameters for marine mechanical systems that can be classified as plant, machinery and equipment (PME). It…

Using a game-based learning approach in teaching overall equipment effectiveness

Marcus Bengtsson

The purpose of this paper is to develop a novel training material for the performance indicator overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) in the form of a game-based learning (GBL…