Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering: Volume 28 Issue 3

Availability and cost assessment of systems with dormant failure undergoing sequential inspections

Himani Pant, S.B. Singh

The system encountering dormant failure subject to sequential inspections is modeled and the emphasis is made on determining the availability and long-run average cost rate for…

Applying analytical hierarchy process (AHP) in selecting best maintenance strategies for newly established chemical fertilizers plants

Abdul Kareem Abdul Jawwad, Ibrahim AbuNaffa

The purpose of this paper is to help newly established plants with minimal or no historical machine data select best maintenance strategies that suit their specific working setup…

Information as a key dimension to develop industrial asset management in manufacturing

Adalberto Polenghi, Irene Roda, Marco Macchi, Alessandro Pozzetti

The purpose of this work is to investigate industrial asset management (AM) in manufacturing. After depicting gaps for AM in this sector, the role of information as a key…

Condition-based opportunistic maintenance policy for a series–parallel hybrid system with economic dependence

Aiping Jiang, Zhenni Huang, Jiahui Xu, Xuemin Xu

The purpose of this paper is to propose a condition-based opportunistic maintenance policy considering economic dependence for a series–parallel hybrid system with a K-out-of-N…

Development of a remaining useful life (RUL) model for reinforced concrete beams subjected to high-cycle fatigue

Willem Wannenburg, Helen M. Inglis, Johann Wannenburg, Chris Roth

Failure of a critical reinforced concrete beam due to fatigue can have severe safety and production consequences, and preventative repair/replacement of such a beam is expensive…

Appropriate strategy selection for reliability-centered maintenance of one-shot systems using fuzzy model

Meysam Azimian, Mahdi Karbasian, Karim Atashgar, Golam Kabir

This paper addresses special reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) strategies for one-shot devices by providing fuzzy inferences system with the assumption that, to data, there…

Decision-making regarding the best maintenance strategy for electrical equipment of buildings based on fuzzy analytic hierarchy process; case study: elevator

Javad Gholami, Ahmad Razavi, Reza Ghaffarpour

The purpose of this paper is to propose the best method of maintenance for electrical equipment of a building and especially elevators in order to achieve various benefits.

Progressive maintenance policy for multiple repairable systems with imperfect maintenance

Garima Sharma, Rajiv Nandan Rai

Degradation of repairable components may not be similar after each maintenance activity; thus, the classic (traditional-time based) maintenance policies, which consider preventive…