Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering: Volume 10 Issue 4

Part I. A framework of partnering for infrastructure maintenance

Ulf Olsson, Ulla Espling

The nature of maintenance is complex and greatly influenced by relationship among various actors involved in execution of maintenance tasks. The relationship factor becomes more…

Part II. Partnering in a railway infrastructure maintenance contract: a case study

Ulla Espling, Ulf Olsson

In 2000, the concept of partnering was introduced as a pilot project in an in‐house contract for operation and maintenance of railway infrastructure. A facilitator introduced the…

Learning about failure root causes through maintenance records analysis

Adolfo Crespo Márquez, Antonio Sánchez Herguedas

The exploitation of the equipment maintenance records is often a weak point within an operations management organization. Inexistence of a proper computerized maintenance…

Calculation methodology for contributive managerial effect by OEE as a result of TPM activities

Ohwoon Kwon, Hongchul Lee

This paper presents a new calculating methodology for estimating the quantitative monetary managerial effects as a result of total productive maintenance (TPM) activities. The…

Bayesian analysis of some static system models

K.K. Sharma, Shubhi Rathi, Namita

This study deals with the Bayesian analysis of the reliability characteristics of some static system models. Recognizing the fact that overestimation (underestimation) of…

Note on optimal partition problems in reliability models

Toshio Nakagawa, Kazumi Yasui, Hiroaki Sandoh

There exist some reliability models whose performances increase by partitioning them into parts. Such a typical model is the basic inspection policy in which an operating unit is…