...Qinming Liu; Wenyuan Lv Purpose – The traditional maintenance scheduling strategies of multi-component systems may result in maintenance shortage or overage, while system degradation information is often ignored. The purpose of this paper is to propose a multi-phase model that better integrates...

... to address this issue. Design/methodology/approach The paper analyses four real wind farms with control charts of indices derived from UNE EN15341:2008 standard indicators, as the main CMS algorithm to define which index must be considered for improving wind farm maintenance and related costs...

...Rajiv Kumar Sharma; Dinesh Kumar; Pradeep Kumar Purpose To examine the need to develop, practice and implement such maintenance practices, which not only reduce sudden sporadic failures in semi‐automated cells but also reduce both operation and maintenance (O&M) costs. Design/methodology...

... maintenance strategies. Maintenance is a complex process that is triggered by planned periodic repair (scheduled or planned maintenance), equipment breakdown or deterioration indicated by a monitored parameter (unplanned or emergency maintenance). This process requires planning, scheduling, monitoring...

... of failure which led to interruptions in production. The objective of the study was to design a maintenance system for the optimal management of replacement stocks, both from the technical and economic point of view. The design of this programme was based on matching a given statistical distribution...

...Shouhong Wang Plant configuration management systems address all phases of the plant’s life cycle, from engineering design, re‐design, maintenance, to operations. However, as yet little research has been reported on plant configuration management information systems analysis. During the past decade...

...Robert A. Fleck; Jr Programmer resources as measured in available hours are often a limiting or constraining resource in software projects and maintenance. A key element in software project management, therefore, is the forecast of required programming hours. Estimates based on past experience...

... the strategy that provides the highest repair quality at a minimum total cost. Provides guidelines for implementing the optimal strategy. © MCB UP Limited 1992 After‐sales service Costs Customer satisfaction Maintenance Service equality TQM TOTAL QUALITY CONTROL: THE REPAIR FACILITY 7 I...

...Peter J. Stevenson Plants and production lines have specific problems in regard to maintenance, which is a very costly fact of business life. A major company outlines its policy for keeping machines, equipment and people working by use of its maintenance plan. Far more control remains in the hands...

...Douglas Harper Copystatic Ltd entered the photocopying sales and maintenance market‐place in tire early 1970s, going through a boom and then a price war. In order to stay in business, the company took the decision to offer customers added value in the form of quality field service, or “uptime...