... summarized in Table I . Jawad Raza can be contacted at jawad.raza@applysorco.no © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Maintenance Neural nets Oil industry Oil and gas (O&G) production processes are quite complex in nature, a fact that can affect systems/equipments in a number...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Pattern recognition Condition monitoring Neural nets Maintaining the integrity of systems is an important element of modern day asset management and is universally emphasised to improve machine availability and thereby improve the economic gains...

... Limited 2005 Neural nets Preventive maintenance Failure (mechanical) Decisions about maintenance policies are often carried out based on the experience of the maintenance crew and their experience and, therefore, result to be difficult and scarcely optimized. Besides, the large amounts...

..., it is called a feasible solution; otherwise, the solution is said to be infeasible. Our goal is to find an optimal solution or sometimes a nearly optimal solution. Reliability management Systems and control theory Constraint handling Neural nets The reliability optimization leads usually...