.... Experience from product and service development has shown that early stages are critical to the development process, as most decisions are made during these stages. Similarly, most maintenance decisions are made during the early stages of maintenance development. Developing maintenance for clustering...

...Rajesh Kumar Singh; Amulya Gurtu Purpose This paper aims to prioritize the factors for the successful implementation of total productive maintenance (TPM). Design/methodology/approach The technique used for prioritization is the analytical hierarchy process (AHP). Findings The commitment...

...Zhe Yin; Carlos Caldas; Daniel de Oliveira; Bon-Gang Hwang; Ming Shan Purpose Facility maintenance is critical for the operation and management of petrochemical plants. Maintenance work completed with higher productivity eventually contributes to better plant performance. Mechanization reduces...

...Balaraju Jakkula; Govinda Raj M.; Murthy Ch.S.N. Purpose Load haul dumper (LHD) is one of the main ore transporting machineries used in underground mining industry. Reliability of LHD is very significant to achieve the expected targets of production. The performance of the equipment should...

.../approach The truck dispatching simulation model with consideration of age-based maintenance is proposed. Findings This paper underlines an impact of truck dispatching decisions and reveals remarkable differences in the total production under different approaches of operational availability...

...Sandeep Phogat; Anil Kumar Gupta Purpose In the present context of globalization, maintenance of production systems is very important. A lot of organizations are facing many problems in maintenance management. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to identify the main problems in maintenance...

...Rajesh Kumar Singh; Ayush Gupta; Ashok Kumar; Tasmeem Ahmad Khan Purpose – In present context of globalization, maintenance of production systems is very important. Many of the organizations are facing a lot of problems in maintenance management. Therefore the purpose of this paper is to identify...

...Li‐Rong Cui; Yu Hayakawa; Anna Gustafson; Håkan Schunnesson; Diego Galar; Uday Kumar Purpose The purpose of this paper is to evaluate and analyse the production and maintenance performance of a manual and a semi‐automatic load haul dump (LHD) machine to find similarities and differences. Design...

..., a stochastic model is proposed to assess and to analyze the availability of reconfigurable systems whose equipments are subject to random failures. To distinguish between the normal behavior and the degraded one, the production rate is used as a performance measure. An availability model that takes...

...Mohammad Al‐Muhaisen; and Nader Santarisi In the cement industries maintenance cost consumes approximately 20‐25 per cent of the total production cost, which comes in the second rank after the energy cost. Therefore, cement plants in Jordan, taken as a case study that represents developing...