Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering: Volume 4 Issue 3

Optimization of maintenance organization and manpower in process industries

Gerald M. Knapp, Milind Mahajan

The objective of maintenance manpower planning is to have the right number of workers with the right capabilities in the right maintenance areas. In this research, a model was…

Fluctuation thermodynamic model of diagnostics for preventive maintenance

Ljubisa Papic, Jezdimir Knezevic

Presents results obtained from research of a model of change in condition of systems with a view to raising effectiveness of a technological trial (testing) and to improving…

Development of a predictive maintenance system for a centrifugal pump

Jorge L. Parrondo, Sandra Velarde, Carlos Santolaria

An approach is presented for the development of a predictive maintenance system for rotor‐dynamic pumps, which focuses on the diagnosis of abnormal events related to fluid‐dynamic…

The cost of unreliability: a case study

Malcolm Bradley, Ray Dawson

The running cost of over 300 PCs has been studied at Rolls‐Royce and Associates. The company helpdesk system was employed to provide detail of the frequency and nature of the PC…

Renewal in changing environment

M.S. Finkelstein

Usually the renewal stochastic processes are used for description of repairable systems performance in the fixed environment. The main characteristic that arises in applications…