Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering: Volume 22 Issue 2

Airline maintenance strategies – in-house vs. outsourced – an optimization approach

Massoud Bazargan

The purpose of this paper is to offer a new mathematical modeling approach to help airlines identify which types of heavy aircraft maintenance checks be performed in-house or…

A SWOT analysis of reliability centered maintenance framework

Gajanand Gupta, Rajesh P Mishra

The purpose of this paper is to use well-established methodology strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) analysis – in order to identify the important factors for…

Cleaning historical maintenance work order data for reliability analysis

Melinda Hodkiewicz, Mark Tien-Wei Ho

The purpose of this paper is to identify quality issues with using historical work order (WO) data from computerised maintenance management systems for reliability analysis; and…

Representation of replacement rules in the form of a matrix

Sergey Golovin

The purpose of this paper is to represent replacement policies (rules) in the form of a matrix. Visualization of replacement rules is useful for maintenance records. Matrix…

Optimal maintenance level of equipment with multiple components

Anil Rana

The purpose of the paper is to provide a method for selection of an optimum level of repair by replacement of an equipment based on its cost. In a ship where the engineer has a…

Optimizing production while reducing machinery lockout/tagout circumvention possibilities

Abdoulaye Badiane, Sylvie Nadeau, Jean-Pierre Kenné, Vladimir Polotski

The optimization of production imposes a review of facility maintenance policies. Accidents during maintenance activities are frequent, sometimes fatal and often associated with…

Assessing remaining useful life of lubricant using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy

Sanjeev Kumar, Manoj Kumar

– The purpose of this paper is to check the actual life of lubricating oil.