Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering: Volume 8 Issue 1

Strategic dimensions of maintenance management

Albert H.C. Tsang

The contemporary business environment has raised the strategic importance of the maintenance function in organizations which have significant investment in physical assets. Four…

Increasing the effectiveness and cost‐efficiency of corrective maintenance using relay‐type assignment

Rolando Quintana, Juan G. Ortiz

There has been extensive research on techniques to assign mechanics to machines in order to maximize their availability in corrective maintenance systems. However, the focus has…

Auditing of the maintenance system of Fuhais plant/Jordan Cement Factories Co.

Mohammad Al‐Muhaisen, and Nader Santarisi

In the cement industries maintenance cost consumes approximately 20‐25 per cent of the total production cost, which comes in the second rank after the energy cost. Therefore…

Can we make maintenance decisions on risk analysis results?

F. Backlund, J. Hannu

For several branches of industry, an increasingly competitive environment has raised important questions concerning maintenance in plant systems. For example, the 1996…

Relevant condition‐parameter strategy for an effective condition‐based maintenance

Haritha Saranga

The great need for an optimum preventive maintenance strategy coupled with the fast‐developing condition‐monitoring techniques has given rise to the invention of relevant…