Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering: Volume 13 Issue 3

An outsourcing decision model for airlines' MRO activities

Hamad Al‐kaabi, Andrew Potter, Mohamed Naim

This paper aims to evaluate the main business models used for airlines' maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) activities and determine the activities to which these relate.

Short‐term maintenance scheduling for utility systems

Shinobu Matsuoka, Masaaki Muraki

The purpose of this study is to optimize short‐term maintenance scheduling of utility systems satisfying network constraints.

Development of a multi‐criteria hierarchical framework for maintenance performance measurement (MPM)

Aditya Parida, Gopi Chattopadhyay

The purpose of this study is to develop a multi‐criteria hierarchical maintenance performance measurement framework, which is balanced, holistic and integrated to various levels…

Conversion of non‐calendar to calendar‐time based preventive maintenance schedules for semiconductor manufacturing systems

José A. Ramírez‐Hernández, Emmanuel Fernandez, Matilda O'Connor, Nipa Patel

The aim of this paper is to present the rationale, a numerical example and a case study of the application of an algorithm to convert non‐calendar based preventive maintenance…

Preventive maintenance scheduling for multi‐cogeneration plants with production constraints

Mohsen Alardhi, Roger G. Hannam, Ashraf W. Labib

This paper describes a method developed to schedule the preventive maintenance tasks in separate and linked cogeneration plants while satisfying the maintenance and production…

Minimizing total flow time and maximum tardiness with periodic maintenance

Wen‐Jinn Chen

In today's industry, a machine breakdown is common for a machine running a long period of time without maintenance. To avoid a sudden breakdown, periodic maintenance is usually…

Economic‐statistical design of an S EWMA control chart for monitoring process variability

P. Castagliola, G. Celano, S. Fichera

The aim of this study is to present the economic‐statistical design of an EWMA control chart for monitoring the process dispersion.