Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering: Volume 9 Issue 3

Cross‐functional team working for overall equipment effectiveness (OEE)

C.J. Bamber, P. Castka, J.M. Sharp, Y. Motara

Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) is being used increasingly in industry. This paper defines OEE and explores the purpose of this concept in modern operations. The paper…

Plant maintenance strategy: evidence from four British manufacturing firms

Fang Lee Cooke

The nature of maintenance work has changed as a result of a huge increase in the number and variety of physical assets to be maintained, increasing automation and complexity, new…

RCM introduction: process and requirements management aspects

F. Backlund, P.A. Akersten

Organisations have introduced reliability‐centred maintenance (RCM) with a view to changing their overall way of performing maintenance. Many times, however, these organisations…

Estimating the mixture of proportional hazards model with incomplete failure data

Jong Woon Kim, Won Young Yun, Tadashi Dohi

Cox’s proportional hazards model (PHM) has been widely applied to the analysis of lifetime data. It involves covariates influencing the failure of products. Regarding the…

Repair times for systems that have high early failures

Joseph S. Sherif

Active repair time is that portion of down time during which the system is worked on to effect a repair. Repair time includes preparation time, diagnostic time, correction time…

Availability modeling and optimization of reconfigurable manufacturing systems

Mustapha Nourelfath, Daoud Ait‐kadi, Wassy Isaac Soro

Reconfiguration mechanisms lead to the design of robust manufacturing systems which have the capability to allow the service continuity, in the presence of a failure, on the basis…

Probabilistic safety analysis of maintainable systems

B.S. Dhillon, Fahri Kirmizi

This paper presents two mathematical models to perform probabilistic safety analysis in maintenance environment. Both models assume system operating in safe and unsafe…