... Limited 2015 Decision making Bottleneck Opportunistic maintenance Series production system Series production systems are widely applied in modern manufacturing enterprises, such as automobile, aviation, aerospace enterprises, etc. For series production systems’ flow-shop configuration...

... Manufacturing systems Decision making Decision support systems Maintenance Man‐machine‐maintenance‐economy model Maintenance impact on company business Problem area identification Production time losses Maintenance dynamic decisions According to the survey that has been done, there is a need...

... The approach shown optimizes run‐repair‐replace decision‐making in the integrity management of assets with the ultimate aim of maximising the impact of money spent on risk mitigation actions. The risk‐based approach, as opposed to the more conventional approaches, assesses failure in its wider context...

...Nafisah Aslam‐Zainudeen; Ashraf Labib Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the applicability of the Decision Making Grid (DMG) and its usefulness, in practice, in the maintenance of rolling stock in the railway industry. The Class 319 fleet operated by First Capital Connect (FCC...

...V. González Díaz; J. Gómez Fernández; A. Crespo Márquez Purpose This paper will be focused in one of the stages included in a reference framework proposed for the improvement of the warranty management. Particularly, the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is a multi‐criteria decision‐making method...

... are modeled using decision making system based on fuzzy methodology. Further, to cope up with imprecise, uncertain and subjective information related to system performance, the system behavior is quantified by fuzzy synthesis of information. Originality/value The complementary adoption of the techniques...

... ORIE can measure the extent to which the railway infrastructure system manages to deliver its agreed performance to the traffic operators. Infrastructure managers can also use the ORIE as a key performance indicator, which can provide important input for effective decision making. Originality/value...

... and intangible benefits. In such a situation, the conventional, financial justification techniques alone cannot be used. Design/methodology/approach The paper attempts to demonstrate the use of a multi‐attribute decision‐making (MADM) model, namely, the analytic hierarchy constant sum method (AHCSM...

... be achieved for maintenance strategy selection through the combination of AHP and TOPSIS. Originality/value The paper highlights a new insight into multi‐criteria decision‐making techniques to select an optimum maintenance policy for a process industry with the use of a case study. S. Kumanan can...

... a division of procedures has been established, dealing with external uncertainties first, then the internal uncertainties related to the structure of the problem and analysis of the decision are addressed using the multi‐criteria decision‐making method PROMETHEE III that allows the amplification...

...Kondo H. Adjallah; Alexandre Muller; Marie‐Christine Suhner; Benoît Iung Purpose This paper proposes the extension of a prognosis process by means of the integration of maintenance alternative impacts in order to develop a maintenance decision‐making tool. Design/methodology/approach...

... is proposed to determine the preferred governance mechanism as a function of fit with the technical environment of facilities management. Hypotheses in the model are tested by means of data collected from a survey of facilities managers. Findings It is found that decision making uncertainty has a negative...

...) limitations. This paper is organized as follows. First, the maintenance function will be presented describing its main types: corrective and preventive maintenance. Afterwards, the relationship between the management information system (MIS) and the decision‐making process, particularly multi‐criteria...

... are relevant and must be considered at the same time. In order to be able to make rational and justifiable tactical decisions for these so‐called multi‐criteria decision problems, one needs a multi‐criteria decision making model (MCDM). In this paper the tactical choice of a predictive maintenance program...

... of an analysis must form a reliable basis for decision making, it is important to consider whether the quality of the results will vary significantly with the risk analysis approach chosen. This paper presents a comparative study based on three independent risk analyses performed on a specific hydro‐power plant...

... and K₂; and parameters of utility functions: A₁ and A₂. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Decision making Bayesian statistics Models Maintenance A multicriteria decision model for repair contract has been built. Fundamentals for this model is presented...

... UP Limited 2000 Maintenance Benchmarking Decision making Energy industry Utilities The electric utility industry is relatively technology oriented with bulky sophisticated equipment and valuable assets requiring heavy capital investment. In the past, with a few exceptions...

... with the exact reliability. The asymptotic relative error is derived, which can be used to adjust the exponential approximation when needed. Based on the framework of exponential approximation for Weibull distributed components, the problems of decision‐making regarding the optimal maintenance time and spare...

... maintenance cost is time dependent, and can be described either as a general cost function or as a specific cost function. The specific cost function can be derived from stochastic shifts in the maintenance cost for the actual problem at hand. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Costs Decision making...

... decisions. The subjectivistic approach provides the framework of coherent use of (expert) judgment, which constitutes a significant (sometimes the only) part of information that is available to us. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Bayesian statistics Decision making Maintenance Models Optimization...