Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering: Volume 7 Issue 4

Venture maintainability: a path to project success Why are some projects less successful than others and what can we do to improve?

Mike Duggan, Richard Blayden

Experience in the development and start‐up of new capital projects has shown that many of the difficulties encountered from an operations and maintenance perspective could have…

Rethinking Pareto analysis: maintenance applications of logarithmic scatterplots

Peter F. Knights

Pareto histograms are commonly used to determine maintenance priorities by ranking equipment failure codes according to their relative cost or downtime contribution. However, such…

Maintenance of mobile mine equipment in the information age

Michael W. Lewis, Luiz Steinberg

Maintenance represents a significant proportion of the overall operating costs in the mining industry. Despite the large cost of maintenance, management has only given passing…

Mobile plant maintenance and the dutymeter concept

Hal Gurgenci, Zhiqiang Guan

Provides examples of duty variability based on field tests conducted during ordinary operating conditions. A severity‐based maintenance approach is introduced as complementary to…

Optimizing a mine haul truck wheel motors’ condition monitoring program Use of proportional hazards modeling

A.K.S. Jardine, D. Banjevic, M. Wiseman, S. Buck, T. Joseph

Discusses work completed at Cardinal River Coals in Canada to improve the existing oil analysis condition monitoring program being undertaken for wheel motors. Oil analysis…

Genetic algorithms for reliability assessment of mining equipment

Nick Vagenas, Tony Nuziale

Discusses an ongoing research work which attempts to formulate, develop and test mining equipment reliability assessment models based on genetic algorithms. Genetic algorithms are…