Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering: Volume 28 Issue 2

A novel approach for optimal replacement threshold and inspection scheme for condition based maintenance

Hamid Reza Golmakani

The purpose of this paper is the simultaneous determination of optimal replacement threshold and inspection scheme for a system within condition-based maintenance (CBM) framework.

Benchmarking maintenance performance in select agro-based industry

Balasaheb Shahaji Gandhare, Milind M. Akarte

This paper demonstrates a multi-criteria analytic hierarchy process (AHP) framework for evaluating and benchmarking maintenance performance in the select agro-based industry.

Strategic vehicle fleet management–a joint solution of make-or-buy, composition and replacement problems

Adam Redmer

The purpose of this paper is to develop an original model and a solution procedure for solving jointly three main strategic fleet management problems (fleet composition…

Linkage between TPM, people management and organizational performance

Abul Bashar, Ahsan Akhtar Hasin, Nadim Jahangir

The purpose of this paper is to explore an empirical investigation of the linkage between total productive maintenance (TPM), people management (PEM) and organizational…

Development of digitalised maintenance – a concept

Hatem Algabroun, Jon Bokrantz, Basim Al-Najjar, Anders Skoogh

This paper presents a concept for digitalised maintenance (DM), maps the conceptualised DM to maintenance problems in industries and highlights challenges that might be faced when…

Measuring preconceived beliefs on the results of overall equipment effectiveness – A case study in the automotive manufacturing industry

Marcus Bengtsson, Lars-Gunnar Andersson, Pontus Ekström

The purpose of the study is to test if it, by the use of a survey methodology, is possible to measure managers' awareness on, and specifically if there exist preconceived beliefs…

Scientific approach using AHP to prioritize low volume rural roads for pavement maintenance

Akhilesh Nautiyal, Sunil Sharma

A large number of roads have been constructed in the rural areas of India to connect habitations with the nearest major roads. With time, the pavements of these roads have…

The impact of early failures on maintenance costs: an empirical study in Latin America

Rodrigo E. Peimbert-García, Jesús Isaac Vázquez-Serrano, Jorge Limón-Robles

Literature shows that the economics of early failures in maintenance and electric utilities have not been deeply analyzed. This study aims to focus on quantifying the economic…

Reliability assessment for multi-state automatic ticket vending machine (ATVM) through software and hardware failures

Amit Kumar, Pardeep Kumar

This paper presents the performance analysis of the automatic ticket vending machine (ATVM) through the functioning of its different hardware and software failures.

Toward a framework for a maintenance architecture

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

This paper aims to investigate how the product architecture and service architecture methodology can be applied in strategic maintenance optimization to reduce the…

An improved imperfect maintenance strategy for multiperiod randomly failing equipment with stochastic repair times

Sofiene Dellagi, Mohamed Noomane Darghouth

In this paper, a maintenance strategy based on improved imperfect maintenance actions with stochastic repair times for multiperiod randomly failing equipment is developed. The…

Simultaneous scheduling of maintenance crew and maintenance tasks in bus operating companies: a case study

Rodrigo Martins, Francisco Fernandes, Virginia Infante, Antonio R. Andrade

The purpose of this paper is to describe an integer linear programming model to schedule the maintenance crew and the maintenance tasks in a bus operating company.