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Publication date: 1 June 1998

A.K.S. Jardine, V. Makis, D. Banjevic, D. Braticevic and M. Ennis

Notes earlier work which commented on the formation of a research group to develop condition‐based maintenance (CBM) decision models and associated software. This paper provides…

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Notes earlier work which commented on the formation of a research group to develop condition‐based maintenance (CBM) decision models and associated software. This paper provides an update on the research direction that has been taken since 1995. In particular, the structure of software for CBM decision making is highlighted, along with possible future research directions.

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Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering, vol. 4 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1355-2511

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Publication date: 1 June 1997

A.K.S. Jardine, D. Banjevic and V. Makis

States that the concept of condition‐based maintenance (CBM) has been widely accepted in practice since it enables maintenance decisions to be made based on the current state of…

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States that the concept of condition‐based maintenance (CBM) has been widely accepted in practice since it enables maintenance decisions to be made based on the current state of equipment. Existing CBM methods, however, mainly rely on the inspector’s experience to interpret data on the state of equipment, and this interpretation is not always reliable. Aims to present a preventive maintenance policy based on inspections and a proportional hazards modelling approach with time‐dependent covariates to analyse failure‐time data statistically. Presents the structure of the software, currently under develop‐ ment and supported by the CBM Project Consortium.

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Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering, vol. 3 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1355-2511

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Publication date: 1 December 2003

Y. Zhan, V. Makis and A.K.S. Jardine

Due to the non‐stationarity of vibration signals resulting from either varying operating conditions or natural deterioration of machinery, both the frequency components and their…

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Due to the non‐stationarity of vibration signals resulting from either varying operating conditions or natural deterioration of machinery, both the frequency components and their magnitudes vary with time. However, little research has been done on the parameter estimation of time‐varying multivariate time series models based on adaptive filtering theory for condition‐based maintenance purposes. This paper proposes a state‐space model of non‐stationary multivariate vibration signals for the online estimation of the state of rotating machinery using a modified extended Kalman filtering algorithm and spectral analysis in the time‐frequency domain. Adaptability and spectral resolution capability of the model have been tested by using simulated vibration signal with abrupt changes and time‐varying spectral content. The implementation of this model to detect machinery deterioration under varying operating conditions for condition‐based maintenance purposes has been conducted by using real gearbox vibration monitoring signals. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed model is able to quickly detect the actual state of the rotating machinery even under highly non‐stationary conditions with abrupt changes and yield accurate spectral information for an early warning of incipient fault in rotating machinery diagnosis. This is achieved through combination with a change detection statistic in bi‐spectral domain.

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Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering, vol. 9 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1355-2511

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Publication date: 13 March 2017

Farnoosh Naderkhani, Leila Jafari and Viliam Makis

The purpose of this paper is to propose a novel condition-based maintenance (CBM) policy with two sampling intervals for a system subject to stochastic deterioration described by…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to propose a novel condition-based maintenance (CBM) policy with two sampling intervals for a system subject to stochastic deterioration described by the Cox’s proportional hazards model (PHM).

Design/methodology/approach

In this paper, the new or renewed system is monitored using a longer sampling interval. When the estimated hazard function of the system exceeds a warning limit, the observations are taken more frequently, i.e., the sampling interval changes to a shorter one. Preventive maintenance is performed when either the hazard function exceeds a maintenance threshold or the system age exceeds a pre-determined age. A more expensive corrective maintenance is performed upon system failure. The proposed model is formulated in the semi-Markov decision process (SMDP) framework.

Findings

The optimal maintenance policy is found and a computational algorithm based on policy iteration for SMDP is developed to obtain the control thresholds as well as the sampling intervals minimizing the long-run expected average cost per unit time.

Research limitations/implications

A numerical example is presented to illustrate the whole procedure. The newly proposed maintenance policy with two sampling intervals outperforms previously developed maintenance policies using PHM. The paper compares the proposed model with a single sampling interval CBM model and well-known age-based model. Formulas for the conditional reliability function and the mean residual life are also derived for the proposed model. Sensitivity analysis has been performed to study the effect of the changes in the Weibull parameters on the average cost.

Practical implications

The results show that considerable cost savings can be obtained by implementing the maintenance policy developed in this paper.

Originality/value

Unlike the previous CBM policies widely discussed in the literature which use sequential or periodic monitoring, the authors propose a new sampling strategy based on two sampling intervals. From the economic point of view, when the sampling is costly, it is advantageous to monitor the system less frequently when it is in a healthy state and more frequently when it deteriorates and enters the unhealthy state.

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Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering, vol. 23 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1355-2511

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Publication date: 1 June 1998

C.E. Love, M.A. Zitron and Z.G. Zhang

Considers a system (machine) that is subject to failure (breakdown). Two characterizations are presented. In the first characterization, the state of the system is described by…

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Considers a system (machine) that is subject to failure (breakdown). Two characterizations are presented. In the first characterization, the state of the system is described by the real age of the machine and the number of failures incurred to date. In the second characterization, the state of the system is described by the real age of the machine and the virtual age of the machine. In either characterization, upon failure, the unit may undergo a repair which can partially reset the failure intensity of the unit. The degree of reset assumed by the repair is a function of the characterization utilized. The other alternative, at a failure, is to conduct a major overhaul that serves to refresh the failure intensity of the unit. General cost structures, depending upon (real age, number of failures) in characterization one or (real age, virtual age) in characterization two are permitted. The decision, on failure to repair or renew is formulated as a discrete semi‐Markov Decision process. Optimal decisions are of the threshold type. The threshold rules depend upon the characterization.

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Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering, vol. 4 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1355-2511

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Publication date: 8 December 2020

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.

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Purpose

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.

Design/methodology/approach

A proportional hazards model (PHM) is used for risk of failure and a Markovian process to model the system covariates. Total expected long-run cost (including replacement, inspection and downtime costs) is formulated in terms of replacement threshold and inspection scheme. Through an iterative procedure, for all different values of replacement thresholds, their associated optimal inspection scheme is determined using an effective search algorithm. By evaluating the corresponding costs, the optimal replacement threshold and its associated optimal inspection scheme are, then, identified.

Findings

The mathematical formulation, that takes into account all different costs, required for the simultaneous determination of optimal replacement threshold and optimal inspection scheme for an item subjected to CBM using PHM is provided. The proposed approach is compared against classical age policy and one state-of-the-art policy through a numerical example. The results show that the proposed approach outperforms other comparing policies.

Practical implications

In practical situations where CBM is implemented, inspections and downtime often incur cost. Under such circumstances, findings of this paper can be utilized for the determination of optimal replacement threshold and optimal inspection scheme so that the CBM cost is minimized.

Originality/value

In most of the reported researches, it is often assumed that inspections have no cost and/or that the time for replacements (either preventive or at failure) is negligible. In the contrary, in this paper the author takes all cost factors including inspection costs, replacement time(s) and their associated downtime costs into account in the simultaneous determination of optimal replacement threshold and optimal inspection scheme.

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Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering, vol. 28 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1355-2511

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Publication date: 29 March 2011

Hamid Reza Golmakani and Fahimeh Fattahipour

This paper aims to address the effect of inspection intervals on cost function in condition‐based maintenance (CBM) and show how selecting an appropriate inspection scheme may…

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Purpose

This paper aims to address the effect of inspection intervals on cost function in condition‐based maintenance (CBM) and show how selecting an appropriate inspection scheme may reduce the cost associated to a CBM program.

Design/methodology/approach

In CBM, replacement policy is often defined as a threshold for replacement or leaving an item in operation until next inspection, depending on monitoring information. The control limit replacement policy framework, already reported by some research referred to in this paper, is utilized to determine the optimal replacement threshold. Having released the assumption that the inspections are performed at fixed and constant intervals, an iterative procedure is proposed to evaluate alternative inspection schemes and their associated total average cost of replacements and inspections.

Findings

The paper proposes an approach in which preventive and failure replacement costs as well as inspection cost are taken into account to determine the optimal replacement policy and an age‐based inspection scheme such that the total average cost of replacements and inspections is minimized.

Practical implications

In many practical situations where CBM is implemented, e.g. manufacturing processes, inspections require labor, specific test devices, and sometimes suspension of the operations. Thus, when inspection cost is considerable, by applying the proposed approach, one can obtain an inspection scheme that reduces the cost.

Originality/value

Using the approach proposed in the paper, a cost‐effective age‐based inspection scheme for a system under CBM is determined.

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Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering, vol. 17 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1355-2511

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Publication date: 4 March 2014

Hamid Reza Golmakani and Morteza Pouresmaeeli

The purpose of this paper is to determine optimal replacement threshold and optimal inspection interval for an item subjected to condition-based maintenance (CBM). The primarily…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to determine optimal replacement threshold and optimal inspection interval for an item subjected to condition-based maintenance (CBM). The primarily assumption is that the item's failure replacement cost depends on the item's degradation state at which failure occurs and/or the time the item fails. The cost of inspection is also taken into account.

Design/methodology/approach

The control limit replacement policy framework, already reported by some research referred to in this paper, is first extended to include the non-decreasing failure replacement cost assumption. Then, for alternative inspection intervals, replacement thresholds together with their associated total cost including the inspection cost are computed. By comparing the total costs, the optimal inspection interval and its corresponding optimal replacement threshold are simultaneously identified.

Findings

The mathematical formulation required for the determination of optimal replacement threshold and optimal inspection interval for an item subjected to CBM under the assumption of non-decreasing failure cost is provided.

Practical implications

In some practical situations where CBM is implemented, the failure replacement cost may depend on the time the failure happens and/or may depend on the system's degradation state. In addition, inspections often incur cost. Under such circumstances, findings of this paper can be utilized for the determination of optimal replacement threshold and optimal inspection interval for the underlying system.

Originality/value

Using the approach proposed in this paper, one could obtain the optimal replacement threshold and the optimal inspection interval for a system subjected to CBM.

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Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering, vol. 20 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1355-2511

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Publication date: 1 December 1995

Viliam Makis and James Fung

Considers an economic manufacturing quantity (EMQ) model with anunreliable production facility and a production process subject torandom deterioration. Notes that the shift of the…

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Considers an economic manufacturing quantity (EMQ) model with an unreliable production facility and a production process subject to random deterioration. Notes that the shift of the process to the “out‐of‐control” state, which may result in producing defective items, is recognized only through inspections; and that the production unit can be replaced preventively or overhauled after finishing a certain number of production runs. Proposes that the objective is to determine the lot size, inspection interval and a preventive replacement time minimizing the expected average cost per unit of time. Obtains the formula for the expected average cost for a generally distributed time to failure. Presents computational results and studies the joint effect of process deterioration and machine breakdowns on the optimal policy.

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Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering, vol. 1 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1355-2511

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Publication date: 19 August 2020

Garima Sharma and Rajiv Nandan Rai

Industries generally require good maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) facilities. Maintenance activities at MRO cover the normal scheduled check-ups known as scheduled…

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Purpose

Industries generally require good maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) facilities. Maintenance activities at MRO cover the normal scheduled check-ups known as scheduled preventive maintenance (SPM) whereas an overhaul reviews and rejuvenates the complete system at a scheduled time. The literature is reasonably stocked with reliability modelling of repairable systems considering both the corrective maintenance (CM) and SPM as imperfect. However, in all these situations the overhaul is modelled as perfect repair. Thus, the purpose of this research paper is to develop a mathematical model for the estimation of reliability parameters considering the complete MRO as imperfect.

Design/methodology/approach

The paper proposes arithmetic reduction of age (Kijima I) based virtual age model to estimate reliability parameters by considering the complete MRO as imperfect and provides the likelihood and log-likelihood functions for parameter estimation of the proposed model and also presents the various extensions of the proposed model.

Findings

For analysis, two real-time data sets of two components, i.e. turbostarter and plunger pump are considered. The analysis mainly focuses on intensity function and availability of components. The availability analysis of the components directly affects the cost analysis. It is very important to analyze the realistic trend of availability, and the comparative analysis shows that the assumption of perfect overhaul overestimates and minimal overhaul underestimates the performance of the components whereas assumption of imperfect overhaul portraits more sensible deteriorating and availability trend of the components.

Originality/value

The proposed methodology in this paper is a novice and not available in the literature.

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International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management, vol. 38 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0265-671X

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