Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering: Volume 29 Issue 1

Preventive maintenance and silica exposure limits integrated in the production planning of a granite processing unit

Kevin Gildas Dongmo Tambah, Jean-Pierre Kenné, Victor Songmene

This paper studies the integration of production and maintenance planning for an unreliable production system subject to gradual deterioration. The goal of this planning is to…

Improving quality of maintenance task for milk powder manufacturing unit through TOPSIS

Nilesh Pancholi, Hiren Gajera, Darshit Shah

The purpose of this paper is to explore the possibilities of improving the quality of existing maintenance task of the atomizer of milk powder manufacturing unit of a dairy plant…

Multi-objective maintenance planning under preventive maintenance

Abbas Al-Refaie, Hiba Almowas

This research developed and examined a mathematical model for concurrent corrective and preventive maintenance policy of a system of series configuration.

Reliability of quantitative risk analysis through an industrial case study

Mohamed Attia, Jyoti K. Sinha

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the reliability of the quantitative risk model used for planning inspection and maintenance activities. The objective is to critically…

Factors influencing sustainable maintenance in manufacturing industries

M. Suresh, R. Dharunanand

This paper intends to discover, analyze and construct a model that may be used to measure the interactions between major factors which are identified by expert opinion and…

A review on the identification of total productive maintenance critical success factors for effective implementation in the manufacturing sector

Sudhir Chaurey, Shyamkumar D. Kalpande, R.C. Gupta, Lalit K. Toke

The purpose of this paper is to carry out the literature search on manufacturing organizations and total productive maintenance (TPM). This research aims at studying TPM…

Preventive maintenance planning considering machines’ reliability using group technology

Farouq Alhourani, Jean Essila, Bernie Farkas

The purpose of this paper is to develop an efficient and effective preventive maintenance (PM) plan that considers machines’ maintenance needs in addition to their reliability…

Maintenance and sustainability: a systematic review of modeling-based literature

Afef Saihi, Mohamed Ben-Daya, Rami Afif As'ad

Maintenance is a critical business function with a great impact on economic, environmental and social aspects. However, maintenance decisions' planning has been driven by merely…

Machine learning for predictive maintenance scheduling of distribution transformers

Laura Isabel Alvarez Quiñones, Carlos Arturo Lozano-Moncada, Diego Alberto Bravo Montenegro

The purpose of this paper is to describe a methodology that has been set up to schedule predictive maintenance of distribution transformers at Cauca Department (Colombia) using…

Application of classification models on maintenance records through text mining approach in industrial environment

Umama Rahman, Miraj Uddin Mahbub

The data created from regular maintenance activities of equipment are stored as text in industrial plants. The size of these data is increasing rapidly nowadays. Text mining…

A structured framework for performance optimization using JBLTO, FCOPRAS and FCODAS methodologies

Nand Gopal, Dilbagh Panchal

The proposed hybridized framework provides a new performance optimization-based paradigm for analysing the failure behaviour of paneer unit (PU) in the dairy industry.

The self-healing ability of durable consumer goods through preventive maintenance behavior

Na Tao

In this study, the focus was shifted from repairing durable goods to achieving healthier ecology, making durable goods more secure in turn. This study introduced preventive…

Development of an approach to incorporate proportional hazard modelling into a risk-based inspection methodology

Nzita Alain Lelo, P. Stephan Heyns, Johann Wannenburg

Industry decision makers often rely on a risk-based approach to perform inspection and maintenance planning. According to the Risk-Based Inspection and Maintenance Procedure…

The value of TPM for Portuguese companies

Eduardo Vaz, José Carlos Vieira De Sá, Gilberto Santos, Florbela Correia, Paulo Ávila

The purpose of this paper is to assess the impact of a maintenance philosophy, Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), on the operational performance of the Portuguese industry…