Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering: Volume 6 Issue 4

Enhancement of maintenance management through benchmarking

C.M. Richard, Peter Tse, Li Ling, Francis Fung

The market‐oriented competitive environment in electric utilities has forced many power plants to become more conscious of the role of maintenance management in enhancing their…

Outage planning of electrical power system networks using genetic algorithm

F.T.S. Chan, H.C.W. Lau, C.C. Ko

An electrical company is responsible for the maintenance of a transmission network of high voltage electricity. The maintenance schedule must be planned so as to minimize outage…

Exponential approximation for maintained Weibull distributed component

M. Xie, H. Kong, T.N. Goh

Exponential distribution is widely used in reliability and maintainability studies although it is well known that the constant failure rate assumption may not be valid. The…

Optimum replacement intervals with random time horizon

Won Young Yun, Chung Hyeon Choi

An optimization problem to obtain the optimal replacement interval is studied. The system is minimally repaired at failure and is replaced by a new one at age T. The model assumes…

Impact of real‐time measurements of operating conditions on effectiveness and accuracy of vibration‐based maintenance policy ‐ A case study in paper mill

Basim Al‐Najjar

Relevant and reliable data from the surroundings in addition to the vibration measurements are required to achieve effective diagnosis and prognosis when a vibration‐based…

Reliability data analysis and modelling of offshore oil platform plant

W. Wang, H.B.A. Majid

This paper reports on the reliability data analysis and modelling of offshore oil platform plant. We first analysed the effectiveness of preventive maintenance to the plant…