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Improving planned and condition-based maintenance decision support [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
In both civil and military aviation, maintenance plays a large role in ensuring continued safe operation and accounts for a significant portion of operating costs.
Lim Chi Keong, Reuben
core   +7 more sources

Assessing the reliability of adaptive power system protection schemes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Adaptive power system protection can be used to improve the performance of existing protection schemes under certain network conditions. However, their deployment in the field is impeded by their perceived inferior reliability compared to existing ...
Burt, Graeme   +3 more
core   +4 more sources

Water Services Maintenance Trust Fund Impact Report, 2016-2021 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
In 2016, a results-based funding model was developed to improve the reliability of rural drinking water supply services in Kenya. The Water Services Maintenance Trust Fund has tested a professional service delivery model in two counties and attracted new
Fund, Water Services Maintenance Trust
core   +1 more source

Predictive condition monitoring of industrial systems for improved maintenance and operation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Maintenance strategies based on condition monitoring of the different machines and devices in an industrial process can minimize downtime, increase the safety of plant operations and help in the process of decision-taking for control and maintenance ...
Ruiz Cárcel, Cristóbal
core   +7 more sources

Process fault prognosis using a fuzzy-adaptive unscented Kalman predictor [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
By monitoring the future process status via information prediction, process fault prognosis is able to give an early alarm and therefore prevent faults, when the faults are still in their early stages.
Chen, Sheng, Tian, Xuemin, Cao, Yuping
core   +2 more sources

Self-adaptation applied to peer-set maintenance in Chord via a generic autonomic management framework [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Self-adaptation can be achieved by autonomic management of facets of a system’s constituent components. This paper reports on a generic autonomic management frame-work and on its application to a key-based routing protocol as used in the peer-to-peer ...
Markus Tauber   +6 more
core   +1 more source

Optimal railway infrastructure maintenance and repair policies to manage risk under uncertainty with adaptive control [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
The aim of this paper is to apply two adaptive control formulations under uncertainty, say open-loop and closed-loop, to the process of developing maintenance and repair policies for railway infrastructures.
Pérez, Jose M.   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Production/maintenance cooperative scheduling using multi-agents and fuzzy logic [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
Within companies, production is directly concerned with the manufacturing schedule, but other services like sales, maintenance, purchasing or workforce management should also have an influence on this schedule.
Archimède, Bernard   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Optimal design for inspection and maintenance policy based on the CCC chart [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
In this paper, the concept of cumulative count of conforming chart (CCC chart) is applied in inspection and maintenance planning for systems where minor inspection, major inspection, minor maintenance and major maintenance are available.
Wu, Shaomin, Chan, Ling-Yau
core   +1 more source

Reinforcement Learning-Based Adaptive Insulin Advisor for Individuals with Type 1 Diabetes Patients under Multiple Daily Injections Therapy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The existing adaptive basal-bolus advisor (ABBA) was further developed to benefit patients under insulin therapy with multiple daily injections (MDI). Three different in silico experiments were conducted with the DMMS.R simulator to validate the approach
Marko V. Jankovic   +5 more
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