...Camilla Lundgren; Jon Bokrantz; Anders Skoogh Purpose Technological advancements are reshaping the manufacturing industry toward digitalized manufacturing. Despite the importance of top-class maintenance in such systems, many industrial companies lack a clear strategy for maintenance...

...Roberto Sala; Marco Bertoni; Fabiana Pirola; Giuditta Pezzotta Purpose This paper aims to present a dual-perspective framework for maintenance service delivery that should be used by manufacturing companies to structure and manage their maintenance service delivery process, using aggregated...

... et al., 2018 ) by proposing an innovative solution for determining proactive maintenance tactics based on mean time between failures (MTBF) and mean time to repair (MTTR) indicators. Design/methodology/approach First, the influence of MTTR and MTBF indicators on proactive maintenance tactics...

...Narges Hemmati; Masoud Rahiminezhad Galankashi; Din Mohammad Imani; Hiwa Farughi Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop a fuzzy analytic network process (FANP) model to select the maintenance policy of an acid manufacturing company. Design/methodology/approach Four maintenance...

...Desmond Eseoghene Ighravwe; Sunday Ayoola Oke Purpose Maintenance plans are programmes, which follow maintenance appraisals, contain information of what to do and the time approximates for accomplishments. They also deal with how to carry out maintenance jobs. In contemporary period, curiosity has...

... on the application of FMEA and make decision-making processes difficult. Thus, several initiatives have been developed by researchers around the world, using adapted, optimized models, extensions and adaptations, in order to optimize the maintenance policies adopted by companies. Laurenti et al. (2012...

... or maintenance management positions in industry classifying different PD factors? Which factors are being measured and registered as PDs in the companies monitoring systems? Design/methodology/approach A longitudinal approach using a repeated cross-sectional survey design was adopted. Empirical data were...

... of the maintenance tasks to fall on the shoulders of the manufacturer/supplier to provide high asset availability. The use of asset monitoring assists in providing high availability but the level of monitoring and maintenance needs to be assessed for cost effectiveness. There is a lack of available tools...

...Shyong Wai Foon; Milé Terziovski Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of operations and maintenance (O&M) practices, individually and collectively, on power plant performance. Design/methodology/approach – Data were collected from more than 100 power plants...

... representative for the case of capital intensive plants where the cost of maintenance has relevant weight on the total operating cost. Findings – The paper highlights the status of the scientific literature on spare parts classification by showing the current situation in the real industrial world...

...Adolfo Crespo Márquez, Beno^t Iung, Marco Macchi and Khairy Kobbacy; Damjan Maletič; Matjaž Maletič; Basim Al-Najjar; Boštjan Gomišček Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of maintenance in improving company's competitiveness and profitability. In the first part the paper...

... based on CSPN can be used as a tool by maintenance decision makers, for prediction of the effectiveness of maintenance strategies. Originality/value – The proposed approach and model provide an efficient tool for advanced investigations on the development and implementation of maintenance policies...

... monitoring and maintenance needs. The proposed method is based on extracting successive features from machinery sensory signals. Then, unsupervised feature selection on the features domain is applied without making any assumptions concerning the source of the signals and the number of the extracted features...

...Adolfo Crespo Márquez, Beno^t Iung, Marco Macchi and Khairy Kobbacy; Thomas Ruin; Eric Levrat; Benoît Iung; Antoine Despujols Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a methodology for supporting complex maintenance programs quantification (CMPQ) for industrial systems. The methodology...

... of the research suggesting applications and further extensions. Originality/value – The value of this paper is the description of a DAHP as a tool that can facilitate decision making related to some of the critical aspects in maintenance or post-sales area, permitting the alignment of actions...

...Siew-Hong Ding; Shahrul Kamaruddin; Ishak Abdul Azid Purpose – An optimal maintenance policy is key to the improvement of the availability and reliability of a system at an acceptable level without a significant increase in investment. However, the selection process is a complicated task because...

...Elaine Aspinwall; Maged Elgharib Purpose The purpose of this paper is to ascertain how total productive maintenance (TPM) has been implemented in large and medium size UK manufacturing companies, focusing on why such a programme was introduced, the activities involved, and the effectiveness...

...Mirka Kans Purpose The aim with this paper is to describe current IT practices within maintenance in Swedish industry, and to outline the future possible developments. Design/methodology/approach The study is performed as a web‐based questionnaire survey consisting of 71 participants...

... information, also pointing out emerging avenues for further scholarly contributions. Design/methodology/approach The supply chain is viewed from a spare part consumer as well as from a supplier perspective. Key to the discussion is an accurate description of the maintenance demand pattern (MDP) known...

...M. Ilangkumaran; S. Kumanan Purpose The purpose of this paper is to focus on the use of analytic hierarchy process (AHP) under fuzzy environment and technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) to select an optimum maintenance strategy for a textile industry. Design...