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Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering (2025) 31 (4): 447–461.
Published: 04 September 2025
... on the components, followed by the implementation of imperfect maintenance actions depending on the inspection conditions. Findings By minimizing the long-run average cost of the system, the optimal preventive maintenance threshold for both components can be derived. Numerical and comparative experiments...
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Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering (2025) 31 (1): 129–173.
Published: 23 January 2025
... representing a shift from traditional maintenance, leveraging prescriptive analytics, data-driven modeling and optimization techniques to enable proactive decision-making and optimal resource allocation. By harnessing PsM, organizations can anticipate and mitigate failures, optimize maintenance actions...
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Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering (2023) 29 (2): 338–355.
Published: 13 July 2022
... systems. However, since backup operations do not come free, there is a need for a data-informed policy to decide how often and which type of backups should be taken. In this paper, the authors present a comprehensive mathematical framework to explore the design space for backup policies and to optimize...
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Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering (2023) 29 (1): 50–70.
Published: 23 November 2021
... A comparison between results at current policy (90 days) and optimal period of corrective and preventive policy was conducted. It was found that availability, profit was increased from 94.4% and $20.091 – 96.5% and $24.803, respectively. Further, the cost was reduced from $1104.8 to $797.22. Research...
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Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering (2021) 27 (2): 413–429.
Published: 03 November 2020
... Total productive maintenance Evaluation method Optimization Maintenance policies Over the years, maintenance has caught the interest of both researchers and decision-makers in companies. Initially, it simply consisted in systematic replacement in the case of preventive maintenance...
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Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering (2016) 22 (4): 433–452.
Published: 10 October 2016
... of the FIS, which takes the form of a numerical weight that assesses the relative importance of each criterion, is then fed into a binary integer program that selects the optimal maintenance actions out of a set of possible actions. Findings The implementation of the developed methodology is demonstrated...
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Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering (2012) 18 (3): 325–343.
Published: 10 August 2012
...‐attributes and the uncertainty in the age‐based replacement policy which is, to date, not available. The proposed method begins with the formulation of the optimization problem for the cost attribute, χ(t), and the reliability attribute, ρ(t). The next step is the normalization...
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Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering (2012) 18 (3): 295–310.
Published: 10 August 2012
...Arzu Uzun; Ahmet Ozdogan Purpose Planning of manufacturing and maintenance activities together, creating a balance between maintenance and production parameters and developments on maintenance will prevent technical and economic losses and increase production efficiency. Optimizing production...
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Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering (2012) 18 (1): 79–97.
Published: 23 March 2012
... properties Optimization Process parameters Replacement control Optimization techniques The mill in the case study processed ore types that came from different mines and possessed different physical characteristics, such as different grade values, ore densities etc. Besides the process data...
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Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering (2011) 17 (4): 415–423.
Published: 25 October 2011
...Abdelhakim Khatab; Nidhal Rezg; Daoud Ait‐Kadi Purpose This paper aims to investigate the optimization of the replacement with minimal repair policy for a system which experiences a time horizon of random length. Under such policy system replacement occurs at multiples of some period while minimal...

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