Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering: Volume 5 Issue 2

Aircraft maintenance workforce schedulingA case study

Hesham K. Alfares

This paper describes an actual aircraft maintenance labor scheduling study. The study’s objective is to determine the optimum maintenance workforce schedule to satisfy growing…

Decision support in a condition based environment

Trond M. Andersen, Magnus Rasmussen

This paper presents an approach for short‐term maintenance planning, based on information about the technical health of an item. A simple cost/risk model is used to calculate the…

A cost model for condition based overhaul/replacement

T.A. Thorstensen, M. Rasmussen

The paper presents a methodology to utilise available information from condition monitoring systems. Before a new approach to determine optimal time for overhaul/replacement is…

Stochastic analysis of a robot machine with duplicate safety units

B.S. Dhillon, A.R.M. Fashandi

Points out the steadily growing role of computers in the industrial sector. Highlights some accidents involving robots and touches on safeguards which have been introduced…

Profit analysis of a system with mutual changeover of units and correlated failures and repairs

Rakesh Gupta, S.Z. Mumtaz, R Nitin Rastogi

Profit analysis of a two non‐identical unit cold standby system model with mutual changeover of the units is carried out in this paper. With mutual changeover of the unit, the…

A note on how we should express and interpret the results of stochastic maintenance optimization models

Terje Aven, Kjell Sandve

Today most maintenance optimization models are established and interpreted within the classical statistical framework. There exist true failure time distributions and cost…

Planning and Control of Maintenance Systems: : Modeling and Analysis

Andrew K.S. Jardine