... resilience by covering the weakness in the resilience indexes of the system. Design/methodology/approach In this article, a suitable approach to estimating resilience in complex engineering systems management in the field of mining has been presented. Accordingly, indexes of reliability, maintainability...

... in the demand of cement is to increase the capacity utilization of the existing cement plants by improving their availability. The availability of a cement plant can be improved by avoiding failures and reducing maintenance time through reliability, availability and maintainability (RAM) analysis of its...

...Panagiotis Tsarouhas† Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide results for a complete reliability, availability, and maintainability (RAM) analysis utilizing data sets from a production system in a wine packaging line. Through the illustrated case study, the author demonstrates how RAM...

... on reliability and maintainability (R&M) parameters into the design and development phase of a contemporary helicopter, and to discuss the way to capture operational data to establish and improve the R&M parameters to reduce life cycle cost. Design/methodology/approach From the analysis...

...Rajkumar Bhimgonda Patil; Basavraj S. Kothavale†; Laxman Yadu Waghmode†; Shridhar G. Joshi† Purpose The paper presents reliability, maintainability and life cycle cost (LCC) analysis of a computerized numerical control (CNC) turning center which is manufactured and used in India. The purpose...

...Panagiotis Tsarouhas; George Besseris Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide results for a complete maintainability analysis utilizing data sets from a production system in a shaving blades division of a large high-tech razor manufacturer. Through the illustrated case study, the authors...

..., availability, maintainability, dependability, MTBF, MTTR and dependability ratio for each subsystem of the system. Findings – The subsystem SS1 comprising of chiller and cream separator is the most critical from maintenance point of view, as the reliability, availability, maintainability, dependability...

...Sukhwinder Singh Jolly; Bikram Jit Singh Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate a tactical approach to cope with the issues related to low availability of repairable machines or systems because of their poor reliability and maintainability. It not only explores the significance...

... equipment in processing facilities. In order to achieve designed availability, asset characterization and maintainability play a vital role. The most appropriate and effective way to characterize the assets in a processing facility is based on risk and consequence of failure. The paper aims to discuss...

...Hilmi Hussin; Fakhruldin Mohd Hashim; Omar Halim Ramli; Syed Muhammad Afdhal Ghazali Purpose This paper aims to propose a practical method of performing maintainability analysis of an offshore system at operation phase having some improvement trend. Design/methodology/approach The analysis...

... of accuracy. This technique has been demonstrated by computing eight well‐known reliability indices which are used for behaviour analysis of the considered system in a more promising way. Findings The study of analysis of reliability, availability, maintainability etc can help in increasing the production...