... engineered maintenance plans. Findings The solution procedure provided excellent results by enhancing the overall arrangement of the tasks, resulting in higher availability rates and a substantial decrease in total maintenance costs. In terms of situational awareness, it provides the user...

.... Originality/value The research focuses on the effect of the air conditioning system of an aircraft on the delay effects and the impact of condition monitoring on delays. Aircraft delays Condition monitoring Maintenance costs Periodic maintenance actions are organized in five different classes...

... and Mahajan, 1998). In capital‐intensive process industries the production is continuous, which emphasizes the role of successful proactive maintenance (Arts et al., 1998). Due to great risks of production losses, the maintenance costs of process industry companies have traditionally not been...

...Ahmed E. Haroun; Elkhawad Ali Elfaki; El Mahdi A. M. Beshir Purpose The purpose of the paper is to find the “effect of economic value of maintenance cost on the optimum selection of one alternative (either out‐or‐in‐sourcing) through the analysis of a case study of two projects: an existing...

... techniques and use two sets of criteria (i.e. technology effectiveness and cost effectiveness) to arrive at a technological decision. To conclude, the CBM justification papers typically focus on maintenance costs, machine availability, or both. Furthermore, they do not consider the “total plant”, or in other...

...Dina Kayrbekova; Abbas Barabadi; Tore Markeset Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss operation and maintenance challenges under Arctic conditions and to propose a methodology to assess systems' reliability, maintainability and maintenance costs under the influence of the Arctic...

... costs Optimization techniques Manufacturing systems Improvements in quality and reliability of industrial processes and reduction of operations and maintenance costs have became compulsory. In an increasingly competitive industrial market, operations and maintenance are important areas where...

...Uday Kumar; Aditya Parida; Arne Nissen Purpose Switches and crossings (S&Cs) are an important component of Banverket's (the Swedish National Rail Administration's) infrastructure and are associated with 13 per cent of the total maintenance cost. Therefore, it is important that a detailed study...

... schedule is dynamically determined based on the short‐term information of the system. Maintenance Maintenance reliability Maintenance costs Process efficiency It is understood that conducting proper maintenance is an effective way to keep manufacturing systems in good condition. Different...

...Mohamed Ali Mirghani This paper develops a case study on the application and implementation issues of a framework for costing planned maintenance. It outlines the methodology for the development of the case study and presents the major findings of the existing maintenance‐costing system...