Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering: Volume 4 Issue 2

A strategic approach to managing maintenance performance

Albert H.C. Tsang

Performance of the maintenance function is typically measured for operational control purposes. Since maintenance also has a strategic dimension, its performance measurement…

An inspection and repair strategy in automated assembly systems

H. Yamashina, H. Mizuyama

In most automated assembly systems, each product is inspected after every assembly operation and, if it is found to be defective, it will be repaired or scrapped immediately. This…

Improved reliability estimates for samples containing suspensions

H.J.G. Bartlett, N.A.J. Hastings

A method is presented for obtaining better estimates of reliability levels used in Weibull analysis and related techniques. The method, which is applicable when there are…

A decision optimization model for condition‐based maintenance

A.K.S. Jardine, V. Makis, D. Banjevic, D. Braticevic, M. Ennis

Notes earlier work which commented on the formation of a research group to develop condition‐based maintenance (CBM) decision models and associated software. This paper provides…

Dynamic analysis of coherent fault trees

Wang Huanqiu, Gao Jinzhong, Xu Fengzhang

An important characteristic of many engineering systems which cannot be modeled by fault trees to perform system reliability analysis is that they behave dynamically. In this…

An SMDP approach to optimal repair/replacement decisions for systems experiencing imperfect repairs

C.E. Love, M.A. Zitron, Z.G. Zhang

Considers a system (machine) that is subject to failure (breakdown). Two characterizations are presented. In the first characterization, the state of the system is described by…

Reliability analysis based on binary decision diagrams

Zhou Jinglun, Sun Quan

A binary decision diagram (BDD) is a representation of Boolean functions that uses the notion of two‐way branching. It has long been used in the synthesis, simulation and testing…