Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering: Volume 21 Issue 3

Improving quality of maintenance through Simplified Technical English

Jezdimir Knezevic

The purpose of this paper is to address the maintenance errors caused by the lack of understanding of maintenance manuals. English is the official language of civil aviation and…

Maintenance cost estimation: application of activity-based costing as a fair estimate method

Ahmed E. Haroun

The purpose of this paper is to present the use of activity-based costing (ABC) approach as an alternative option to the traditional cost accounting system. The contribution of…

A Markov decision process model case for optimal maintenance of serially dependent power system components

Daniel Bumblauskas

Using a case study for electrical power equipment, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the importance of dependence between series-connected system components in…

Diagnosis and economic impact of operational variability – a case from the chemical forest industry

Jukka Mikael Rantamäki, Olli Saarela

This paper deals with the identification and diagnosis of operational variability in chemical processes, which is a common problem in mills but little explored in literature. The…

Investigating the impact of social sustainability within maintenance operations: An action research in heavy industry

Matteo M. Savino, Marco Macchi, Antonio Mazza

The purpose of this paper is to primarily focus on labor in maintenance areas, addressing human rights issues, labor standards and safety standards. The main issue is to…

Diagnosing urban rail transit vehicles with FMEA and fuzzy set

Wei Zhu, Chen-yu Li, Xiao-yan Xiao, Wen-bin Xu

– The purpose of this paper is to develop an effective treatment to analyze and diagnose urban rail transit (URT) vehicle maintenance strategy.

Age replacement policies for two-component systems with stochastic dependence

Zouheir Malki, Daoud Ait-Kadi, Mohamed-Salah Ouali

The purpose of this paper is to investigate age replacement policies for two-component parallel system with stochastic dependence. The stochastic dependence considered, is modeled…

eMaintenance ontologies for data quality support

Mustafa Aljumaili, Karina Wandt, Ramin Karim, Phillip Tretten

The purpose of this paper is to explore the main ontologies related to eMaintenance solutions and to study their application area. The advantages of using these ontologies to…