Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering: Volume 11 Issue 2

Joint optimal periodic and conditional maintenance strategy

M.A. Jamali, D. Ait‐Kadi, R. Cléroux, A. Artiba

In this paper, an optimal periodic replacement strategy is proposed. This strategy suggests new items to perform replacements at failure. Preventive replacements, scheduled at…

To maintain or not to maintain? What should a risk‐averse decision maker do?

D. Bardey, F. Riane, A. Artiba, L. Eeckhoudt

In real‐life applications maintenance managers often face complicated decision problems under uncertainty. This difficulty increases when they have to take conflicting objectives…

Optimal design of series production lines with unreliable machines and finite buffers

Mustapha Nourelfath, Nabil Nahas, Daoud Ait‐Kadi

The purpose of this paper is to formulate a new problem of the optimal design of a series manufacturing production line system, and to develop an efficient heuristic approach to…

Artificial neural networks for reliability maximization under budget and weight constraints

Mustapha Nourelfath, Nabil Nahas

The purpose of this paper is to apply a recent kind of neural networks in a reliability optimization problem for a series system with multiple‐choice constraints incorporated at…

Appraisal of farm tractor maintenance practices and costs in Nigeria

S.O. Jekayinfa, K.A. Adebiyi, M.A. Waheed, O.O. Owolabi

The purpose of this paper is to investigate tractor maintenance practices and costs in Nigeria with a view to making replacement decisions and for overall farm budgeting.

Reliability and operating environment‐based spare parts estimation approach: A case study in Kiruna Mine, Sweden

Behzad Ghodrati, Uday Kumar

With continuous technological development in the twenty‐first century, the industry and industrial systems have become complex and making their availability more critical. In this…