Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering: Volume 10 Issue 2

Sourcing strategies of facilities management

Encon Y.Y. Hui, Albert H.C. Tsang

In this study, four sourcing strategies are identified in the delivery of maintenance service in facilities management, namely in‐sourcing, out‐tasking, outsourcing for cost…

State of implementation of TPM in SMIs: a survey study in Malaysia

Shamsuddin Ahmed, Masjuki Hj. Hassan, Zahari Taha

Applications of systems like total quality management (TQM), total productive maintenance (TPM) and just‐in‐time (JIT) have been studied mainly in large industries with little…

Implementation of proactive maintenance in the Egyptian Glass Company

Samir Ismail Mostafa

The implementation of proactive maintenance, as presented here, offers a complete package for maintenance system development. The package contains a methodology, a software…

Instantaneous angular speed monitoring of electric motors

Ahmed Yousef Ben Sasi, Fengshou Gu, Bradley Payne, Andrew Ball

This research presents the theory and implementation detail for the extraction of angular speed variations. In particular, band‐pass filtering, frequency shifting and analytic…

Stochastic analysis of a maintainable robot‐safety system with common‐cause failures

B.S. Dhillon, Zhijian Li

This paper presents reliability and availability analyses of a robot‐safety system having one robot and n‐redundant safety units with common‐cause failures. The system failure…

Inspection policy for a scale considering accidental detections

Hiroaki Sandoh, Nobuko Igaki, Toshio Nakagawa

The present study deals with an optimal inspection policy for a scale where the inspection for a scale is conducted when the elapsed time since the previous inspection or…

A stochastic maintenance management model with recovery factor

Cheng‐Hua Wang, Sheue‐Ling Hwang

In this study, recovery factor was considered in the maintenance management model that integrates the quantitative method and qualitative concept. The model is developed to solve…