Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering: Volume 3 Issue 3

Flowline corrosion problems: a case study of Shell Petroleum Development Company, Nigeria

B.O. Onyekpe, L.P. Dania

Describes flowline problems inherent in the land and swamp fields. Non‐destructive testing ‐ general visual inspection and ultrasonic thickness survey based on the nominal…

Mathematical programming approaches for the management of maintenance planning and scheduling

S.O. Duffuaa, K.S. Al‐Sultan

Addresses the problem of maintenance planning and scheduling and reviews pertinent literature. Discusses the characteristics and the complexity of the problem. Advocates…

Spare optimization models for series and parallel structures

U. Dinesh Kumar, J. Knezevic

Proposes optimization models for spare provisioning. In the first model, considers a series system with m components where each component can have a maximum of (n‐1) spares. The…

Analysis of computer integrated manufacturing systems by fuzzy human operator behaviour

Lev V. Utkin, Sergey V. Gurov, Igor B. Shubinsky

Analyses computer integrated manufacturing systems with the real‐time constraints under the condition that time to repair depends on human experience and can be fuzzy. Proposes an…

Co‐ordination of inspections for a group of machines

M. Ben‐Daya, Salih Duffuaa

Models inspection co‐ordination of a group of machines using a non‐linear integer program. The objective of the model is to minimize the expected total cost per unit time, which…

Distribution‐free inferences on system reliability

K.K. Sharma, Bhupendra Singh

Describes how sampling distribution of the estimates of the reliability functions for various failure time distributions is either hard to obtain or is quite complicated and, as…