Assessing maintenance contracts when preventive maintenance is outsourced [PDF]
, 2012 In some companies, corrective maintenance is conducted in-house but preventive maintenance might be outsourced. This raises a need to optimise some parameters such as the number of contracts from a perspective of the equipment owner.
Shaomin Wu, Wu, Shaomin
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Maintenance Optimization for Two-Component Series Systems With Degradation Dependence
IEEE Access, 2021 This paper proposes a model of maintenance optimization for a system consisting of two dependent components in long-term operation, where both components are subject to dependent degradation.
Wei-Ning Ma +3 more
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Reviews and case studies: Research opportunities in maintenance of office building services systems [PDF]
, 2010 Purpose - The purpose of this study is to highlight special characteristics of building services systems and investigate how practitioners view reliability and maintenance.
Hornby, Matthew +3 more
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Multiobjective Optimization for Railway Maintenance Plans [PDF]
Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, 2018 AbstractRailway track maintenance is a critical problem for any railway administrator. More precisely, preventive maintenance scheduling is a nondeterministic polynomial time (NP)–hard problem, whi...
Daniel Peralta +8 more
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Rapid modeling of field maintenance using discrete event simulation [PDF]
, 2011 Discrete event simulation has been applied to a wide range of applications areas due to its ability to represent stochastic systems over time. Maintenance, particularly field maintenance, is complex due to the interaction of different sub-systems of ...
Tiwari, Ashutosh +5 more
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Review of recent research towards power cable life cycle management
High Voltage, 2017 Power cables are integral to modern urban power transmission and distribution systems. For power cable asset managers worldwide, a major challenge is how to manage effectively the expensive and vast network of cables, many of which are approaching, or ...
Chengke Zhou, Huajie Yi, Xiang Dong
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Development and implementation of preventive-maintenance practices in Nigerian industries. [PDF]
, 2006 A methodology for the development of PM using the modern approaches of FMEA, root-cause analysis, and fault-tree analysis is presented. Applying PM leads to a cost reduction in maintenance and less overall energy expenditure.
Probert, Sydney D. +2 more
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Multi objective optimization of ship spare parts maintenance based on Improved Genetic Algorithm [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2021 For ship equipment turnover spare parts, if the maintenance interval is too long, the safety and working ability will be reduced; if frequent maintenance is performed, it will cause much waste.
Xiao Bin, Liu Chang, Jiang Tiejun
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Maintenance parameters based production policies optimization [PDF]
, 2012 Purpose - Planning of manufacturing and maintenance activities together, creating a balance between maintenance and production parameters and developments on maintenance will prevent technical and economic losses and increase production efficiency ...
Ozdogan A., Uzun A.
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Maintenance Strategies to Reduce Downtime Due to Machine Positional Errors [PDF]
, 2014 Manufacturing strives to reduce waste and increase Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE). When managing machine tool maintenance a manufacturer must apply an appropriate decision technique in order to reveal hidden costs associated with production ...
Longstaff, Andrew P. +5 more
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