Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering: Volume 27 Issue 2

Using Mahalanobis distance and decision tree to analyze abnormal patterns of behavior in a maintenance outsourcing process-a case study

Ssu-Han Chen, Yiyo Kuo, Jin-Kwan Lin

The purpose of this paper is to analyze abnormal behavior patterns in a maintenance outsourcing process. Based on the results, the managers can focus on the abnormal behavior and…

A data mining approach for lubricant-based fault diagnosis

James Wakiru, Liliane Pintelon, Peter Muchiri, Peter Chemweno

The purpose of this paper is to develop a maintenance decision support system (DSS) framework using in-service lubricant data for fault diagnosis. The DSS reveals embedded…

Reliability modelling and sensitivity analysis of IoT based flood alerting system

Vaishali Tyagi, Nitesh Rawat, Mangey Ram

The purpose of this work is to develop a prototype of flood alerting system (FAS) based on the Internet of Things (IoT) to save the lives and property by alerting the people about…

Multi-stakeholder perspectives on indicators for sustainable maintenance performance in production contexts: an exploratory study

Chiara Franciosi, Valentina Di Pasquale, Raffaele Iannone, Salvatore Miranda

Poor maintenance management leads to non-negligible economic, environmental and social impacts and obstacles to the sustainable manufacturing paradigm. Studies evaluating…

Practices of preventive maintenance planning in discrete manufacturing industry

Antti Salonen, Maheshwaran Gopalakrishnan

The purpose of this study was to assess the readiness of the Swedish manufacturing industry to implement dynamic, data-driven preventive maintenance (PM) by identifying the gap…

A novel fuzzy hybrid multi-criteria decision-making approach for evaluating maintenance strategies in petrochemical industry

Asghar Aghaee, Milad Aghaee, Mohammad Reza Fathi, Shirin Shoa'bin, Seyed Mohammad Sobhani

The purpose of this study is to evaluate maintenance strategies based on fuzzy decision-making trial evaluation and laboratory (DEMATEL) and fuzzy analytic network process (ANP…

Predicting maintenance work hours in maintenance planning

Waqas Khalid, Simon Holst Albrechtsen, Kristoffer Vandrup Sigsgaard, Niels Henrik Mortensen, Kasper Barslund Hansen, Iman Soleymani

Current industry practices illustrate there is no standard method to estimate the number of hours worked on maintenance activities; instead, industry experts use experience to…

Fault diagnosis of internal combustion engine gearbox using vibration signals based on signal processing techniques

Ravikumar KN, Hemantha Kumar, Kumar GN, Gangadharan KV

The purpose of this paper is to study the fault diagnosis of internal combustion (IC) engine gearbox using vibration signals with signal processing and machine learning (ML…

Analytical evaluation of TPM performance based on an economic criterion

Kenza Chaabane, Jérémie Schutz, Sofiene Dellagi, Wajdi Trabelsi

Total productive maintenance (TPM) has been widely recognized as a strategic weapon for improving manufacturing performance. Evaluate efficiency of TPM implementation is…

The impact of the implementation of management system on the perception of role and tasks of maintenance services and effectiveness of their functioning

Przemysław Drożyner

The first goal of the article was to examine how the perception of the role and scope of operation of maintenance services in the enterprise changes, depending on whether the…