Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering: Volume 29 Issue 2

Reliability centered maintenance (RCM): literature review of current industry state of practice

James Geisbush, Samuel T. Ariaratnam

Reliability centered maintenance (RCM) is a process used to determine activities to be taken to ensure an asset continues to perform asset's function in asset's present operating…

Optimal data backup policies for information systems subject to sudden failure

Salih Tekin, Kemal Bicakci, Ozgur Mersin, Gulnur Neval Erdem, Abdulkerim Canbay, Yusuf Uzunay

With the irresistible growth in digitization, data backup policies become essential more than ever for organizations seeking to improve reliability and availability of…

Reliability and maintainability optimization of load haul dump machines using genetic algorithm and particle swarm optimization

Monika Saini, Deepak Sinwar, Alapati Manas Swarith, Ashish Kumar

Reliability and maintainability estimation of any system depends on the identification of the best-fitted probability distribution of failure and repair rates. The parameters of…

Condition-based monitoring of the rail wheel using logical analysis of data and ant colony optimization

Hany Osman, Soumaya Yacout

In this paper, a data mining approach is proposed for monitoring the conditions leading to a rail wheel high impact load. The proposed approach incorporates logical analysis of…

Public-school infrastructure ageing and current challenges in maintenance

Nilupa Herath, Colin Duffield, Lihai Zhang

School infrastructure is one of critical factors that significantly contribute to the educational outcomes, and therefore, maintaining the high quality of school infrastructure…

Review of fault detection techniques for predictive maintenance

D. Divya, Bhasi Marath, M.B. Santosh Kumar

This study aims to bring awareness to the developing of fault detection systems using the data collected from sensor devices/physical devices of various systems for predictive…

Maintenance practices and overall equipment effectiveness: testing the moderating effect of training

André Luís Castro Moura Duarte, Marcia Regina Santiago Santiago Scarpin

This study aims to identify the relationship between different maintenance practices and productive efficiency in continuous process productive plants as well as the moderating…

Autonomous maintenance preparation system design with axioms

Suleyman Muftuoglu, Emre Cevikcan, Bulent Durmusoglu

The purpose of this paper is to support total productive maintenance implementers by providing a roadmap for autonomous maintenance (AM) preparation phase.

Random replacement policies to sustain the post-warranty reliability

Lijun Shang, Qingan Qiu, Cang Wu, Yongjun Du

The study aims to design the limited number of random working cycle as a warranty term and propose two types of warranties, which can help manufacturers to ensure the product…

Designing synchronizer module in CMMS software based on lean smart maintenance and process mining

Seyed Hesam Hosseinizadeh Mazloumi, Alireza Moini, Mehrdad Agha Mohammad Ali Kermani

New maintenance hypotheses such as lean smart maintenance emphasized internal integration. Since the maintenance process is not fully integrated with other business processes, it…

A predictive multi-objective condition-based maintenance (CBM) policy considering ecological factors

Ronghua Cai, Jiamei Yang, Xuemin Xu, Aiping Jiang

The purpose of this paper is to propose an improved multi-objective optimization model for the condition-based maintenance (CBM) of single-component systems which considers…

Contribution of machine learning in continuous improvement processes

Imane Mjimer, Es-Saadia Aoula, E.L. Hassan Achouyab

The aim of this study is to predict one of the key performance indicators used to improve continually production systems using machine learning techniques known by the ability to…