Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering: Volume 27 Issue 4

Condition-based maintenance: an industrial application on rotary machines

Antonio Acernese, Carmen Del Vecchio, Massimo Tipaldi, Nicola Battilani, Luigi Glielmo

The purpose of this paper is to describe a model for the design and development of a condition-based maintenance (CBM) strategy for the cutting group of a labeling machine. The…

Joint design of control chart, production and maintenance policy for unreliable manufacturing systems

Nadia Bahria, Imen Harbaoui Dridi, Anis Chelbi, Hanen Bouchriha

The purpose of this study is to develop a joint production, maintenance and quality control strategy involving a periodic preventive maintenance policy.

A supporting framework for estimating no fault found cost: development and application in the aircraft MRO industry

Vipin Prakash Singh, Kunal Ganguly

This research aims to develop a new generic framework for estimating different maintenance costs (preventive, corrective and conditional based) and its distribution to original…

Vibration measurement of a cutting tool using root-embedded PZT sensor

Adli B. Haddad, Bassem O.F. Al-Bedoor

In this paper, a vibration measuring technique that relies on the use of piezoelectric material and is originally developed to measure the vibration of turbine blade is adopted to…

A decision support system to assure high-performance maintenance service

Giuseppe Aiello, Julio Benítez, Silvia Carpitella, Antonella Certa, Mario Enea, Joaquín Izquierdo, Marco La Cascia

This study aims to propose a decision support system (DSS) for maintenance management of a service system, namely, a street cleaning service vehicle. Referring to the information…

Optimal replacement policy based on the effective age of the system for a deteriorating repairable system with multiple vacations

Wenfeng Wu, Jianshe Song, Kexia Jiang, Hao Li

This paper aims to study the maintenance and replacement problem for a deteriorating repairable system with multiple vacations of one repairman. It proposes a new replacement…

Operators’ risk awareness towards operations’ risk assessment: a field study in the motor vehicle field

Micaela Demichela, Lorenzo Comberti, Gabriele Baldissone

The purpose of the research was to verify if there was an alignment between the risk assessed and the risk perceived or if some inconsistencies arise that could affect the safety…