... time Damage model Minimal repair Optimal policy Operating systems Optimization techniques Most systems deteriorate with age and use, and eventually, fail from either or both causes in random environment. If their failure rates increase with age and use, it may be wise to make some suitable...

... Publishing Limited 2012 Quality systems Maintenance Organizational processes Collaboration Contracting Optimization techniques Risk This study uses game theory to demonstrate that a principal and an agent will share investments that improve the inter‐organisational work processes under...

... Figure 5). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Economic models Replacement decision Mill liners Ore properties Optimization Process parameters Replacement control Optimization techniques Autogenous mills are used in mineral processing for particle size reduction. Mill...

... maintenance Reliability Optimization Reliability management Optimization techniques Preventive maintenance for reparable systems was initiated by Barlow and Hunter in their seminal paper (Barlow and Hunter, 1960). Since, a variety of mathematical models appeared in the literature for the design...

... classifies the literature on maintenance optimization models on different optimization techniques and based on emerging trends it outlines the directions for future research in the area of maintenance optimization. Originality/value The paper provides many references and case studies on maintenance...

... Optimization techniques Reliability optimization plays an important role in systems maintenance planning and logistics requirements. In order to achieve more reliable systems, using redundancy is the most widely used approach in complex technical designs. As such a trade‐off exists between investments...

... maintenance Optimization techniques Manufacturing systems Preventive maintenance and replacement describes a wide range of activities designed and performed in order to improve the overall reliability and availability of a system. All types of systems found in manufacturing, health care...

... availability maximization. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Ali Gharbi can be contacted at: ali.gharbi@etsmtl.ca S Replacement part safety threshold level (ordered point). Maintenance programmes Simultaneous engineering Experimental design Optimization techniques...

... 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...

... be contacted at: jmbkhalil@tedata.net © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Maintenance Optimization techniques Accuracy Backlogs It is in the interest of any industrial organisation to develop a preventive maintenance strategy in order to solve the problem of unplanned unavailability...

... as equation (1). In practical cases, many deterioration processes of industrial equipment and civil structures satisfy the Markovian property. Ling Wang can be contacted at: wanglingleo@gmail.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Replacement costs Monte Carlo simulation Optimization...

... these dimensions simultaneously. Allen S.B. Tam can be contacted at: allen.tam@silcar.com.au or sbatam@yahoo.com.hk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Pressure equipment Electric power stations Maintenance Optimization techniques Australia The “boiler pressure parts...

..., this study intends to improve the solution procedure to solve larger instances of the problem. Preventive maintenance Production scheduling Optimization techniques Two of the most common and significant problems faced by the manufacturing industry are production scheduling and preventive...

.... This technique was initially developed by Holland (1975) , Goldberg (1989) , Gen and Cheng (1997) and Reeves (1993) provide a good description of GA's. GA's have been applied in combinatorial optimization techniques and designed to solve a variety of reliability optimization problems. Painton...

... and importance; 2. a modeling of the deterioration of the system in time and possible consequences for this system; 3. a description of the available information about the system and actions open to management; and 4. an objective function and an optimization technique which helps in finding...

... is relevant to many industries. Originality/value The body of knowledge relative to selective maintenance continues to grow. However, this is the first study aimed at improving the capability of engineers to solve practically‐sized selective maintenance problems. Maintenance Optimization techniques...

... Markov decision processes. Condition monitoring Optimization techniques Failure (mechanical) Reliability management Breakdowns in large, complex systems can seriously affect society. Preventive maintenance plays an important role in avoiding such breakdowns. Many kinds of maintenance...

..., the regular order is not made. The configuration of the model under consideration is depicted in Figure 1 . Production planning Optimization techniques Spare parts N discrete random variable denoting failure time p(n); 1/λ (>0) probability mass function, mean...

... Thus, U(T) is a strictly increasing function from 0 to M(K−z_{0). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Optimization techniques Stochastic processes Energy supply systems Preventive maintenance Many authors have studied preventive maintenance}...

... of the process is investigated. The significant factors affecting the volume and mass of the blow molded bottles are identified. The results show that melting temperature, pressure, and ambient temperature have a significant impact on the variation of produced bottle quality. An optimization technique...