Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering: Volume 9 Issue 1

Decision support in selecting maintenance organization

Jan Emblemsvåg, Leif Tonning

Selecting a satisfactory maintenance organization to support costly and technologically advanced assets with a long life‐cycle is not easy. There are numerous objectives to…

A statistical approach linking energy management to maintenance and production factors

Amjed Al‐Ghanim

This research has addressed a quantitative approach for improving energy management through applying statistical techniques aimed at identifying and controlling factors linked to…

Posterior probabilities of causal factors leading to unairworthy dispatch after maintenance

Manoj S. Patankar, James C. Taylor

ASRS maintenance reports from 1996 through 2000 (n = 937) were subjected to posterior probability analysis to determine the probability of causal factors leading to a specific…

Determination of the optimal software release time based on proportional hazards software reliability growth models

Yasuhiko Nishio, Tadashi Dohi

The software reliability models to describe the reliability growth phenomenon are formulated by any stochastic point process with state‐dependent or time‐dependent intensity…

Hierarchical control of production and maintenance rates in manufacturing systems

J.P. Kenné, E.K. Boukas

This paper deals with the production and preventive maintenance planning control problem for a multi‐machine flexible manufacturing system (FMS). A two‐level hierarchical control…

Note on reliability of a system complexity considering entropy

Toshio Nakagawa, Kazumi Yasui

Large‐scale systems have been developed with increasing requirements of high quality and performance. It would be indispensable to define the reliability of more complex systems…