Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering: Volume 12 Issue 1

Evaluating the effectiveness of maintenance strategies

Liliane Pintelon, Srinivas Kumar Pinjala, Ann Vereecke

To provide a framework that can identify and evaluate the effectiveness of a given maintenance strategy in a company. This can help in the strategic management of maintenance.

Human error in maintenance: a review

B.S. Dhillon, Y. Liu

The aim of the paper is to present the impact of human errors in maintenance as found in the literature in order for practitioners to be aware of their impact and develop actions…

Data management for CBM optimization

Albert H.C. Tsang, W.K. Yeung, Andrew K.S. Jardine, Bartholomew P.K. Leung

This paper aims to discuss and bring to the attention of researchers and practitioners the data management issues relating to condition‐based maintenance (CBM) optimization.

Maintenance strategies for used equipment under lease

J. Pongpech, D.N.P. Murthy, R. Boondiskulchock

The aim of this research is to determine the optimal upgrade and preventive maintenance actions that minimize the total expected cost (maintenance costs+penalty costs).

Lot sizing, preventive maintenance, and warranty decisions for imperfect production systems

M. Ben‐Daya, S.A. Noman

Sets out to develop an integrated model that considers simultaneously inventory production decisions, PM schedule, and warranty policy for a deteriorating system that experiences…

A synthetic control chart for monitoring the process mean and variance

A.F.B. Costa, M.A. Rahim

The aim of this paper is to present a synthetic chart based on the non‐central chi‐square statistic that is operationally simpler and more effective than the joint X¯ and R chart…

Setting initial clearance limits for sound roller expanded tube‐tubesheet joints in shell and tube heat exchanger maintenance

A.N. Shuaib

The purpose of this paper is to develop a procedure for deciding on the limits of initial clearance to which tubesheet holes can be enlarged before replacement in heat exchanger…

Guest editorial

Abdul Raouf, Salih Duffuaa, Mohamed Ben-Daya