.../approach Intelligent stress, condition and health indicators have been developed for control and condition monitoring by combining generalised moments and norms with efficient nonlinear scaling. The data analysis resulting nonlinear scaling functions can also be used to handle performance measures used...

... to maximize the steady state availability. It is also easy to implement. Originality/value This new strategy would appear to be more efficient than the previous basic block replacement strategy. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Replacement control Maintenance programmes Production...

... Maintenance Control Breakdowns Taiwan Owing to machine overload and lack of maintenance, machine breakdowns occur frequently in the studied shop. Therefore, it is desired to derive a schedule considering both jobs and maintenance simultaneously that will reduce the breakdown rate. In many...