Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering: Volume 3 Issue 4

Availability‐based maintenance within an asset management programme

Mike Organ, Tony Whitehead, Mike Evans

Suggests that maintenance should be proactive and that a modern maintenance department should be a leader in the management team. Considers factors such as scheduling and capacity…

The status of maintenance management in Swedish manufacturing firms

Patrik Jonsson

Presents a model of five linked maintenance management components (strategy, human aspects, support mechanisms, tools/techniques and organization). Analyses the present status of…

Total productive maintenance practices: a survey in Italy

Roberto Cigolini, Francesco Turco

Focuses on total productive maintenance (TPM) practices in Italy. Surveys a set of companies in manufacturing industry and where programme kick‐off only has been performed…

Building maintenance strategy: a new management approach

R.M.W. Horner, M.A. El‐Haram, A.K. Munns

Points out that increasing pressure to prolong the useful life of a building without compromising the objectives of maintenance has led to an increasing interest in methods of…

Sources of fuzziness in vehicle maintenance management

Jezdimir Knezevic, Ljubisa Papic, Branko Vasic

Deals with sources of fuzziness in individual parts and stages of maintenance and utilization of vehicles in large fleets. Effective vehicle fleet maintenance management requires…

Hydroinformatics technology and maintenance of UK water networks

Dragan Savic, Godfrey Walters, Philip G. Ashcroft, Arthur Arscott

Notes that the most important fixed asset of any water distribution company is its pipe network. However, once installed it is difficult to manage not only because it is buried in…

Industry driven postgraduate maintenance education: MIRCE approach

Jezdimir Knezevic

Over the past decade the education system in the UK has been heavily criticized for its irrelevance to industry. Employers, in particular, have been concerned that the values and…