Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering: Volume 18 Issue 3

On the operation and maintenance practices of wind power asset: A status review and observations

Idriss El‐Thalji, Jayantha P. Liyanage

The purpose of this paper is to review the operation and maintenance practices within wind power applications and to clarify practical needs as gaps between researchers and…

Individualising maintenance management: a proposed framework and case study

Michael Daragh Naughton, Peter Tiernan

The purpose of this paper is to review the advancements made in the area of contemporary maintenance management individualisation, to identify the difficulties in strategy design…

The role of maintenance in energy saving in commercial refrigeration

Michael Knowles, David Baglee

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the link between maintenance and energy saving in a commercial refrigeration setting.

Maintenance parameters based production policies optimization

Arzu Uzun, Ahmet Ozdogan

Planning of manufacturing and maintenance activities together, creating a balance between maintenance and production parameters and developments on maintenance will prevent…

The scheduling of maintenance service for a family of machines of multi‐branch firm

Jia‐Yen Huang

It is not uncommon that a multi‐branch firm has all its branches maintaining the same group of machines from a maintenance department. Clearly there are potential opportunities to…

Robust‐optimum multi‐attribute age‐based replacement policy

Andi Rahadiyan Wijaya, Jan Lundberg, Uday Kumar

A common model in the age‐based replacement policy is based on the cost attribute and assumes that the model parameters are known. In practice, the model parameters are estimated…

A risk‐based approach to manage non‐repairable spare parts inventory

Jakiul Hassan, Faisal Khan, Mainul Hasan

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose a risk‐based approach for spare parts demand forecast and spare parts inventory management for effective allocation of limited…