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Policy reappraisal and maintenance
Business Horizons, 1959Abstract The need for policy reappraisal grows out of the dynamics of our modern economic society, including such factors as cyclical changes, competitors' actions, organizational changes, new or changed objectives, and the frequency of use. Policies may need realignment to match organizational changes, to eliminate overlap, and to harmonize with ...
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Modelling Inspection Policies for Building Maintenance
Journal of the Operational Research Society, 1982A method of assessing the potential of an inspection maintenance policy as opposed to an existing breakdown maintenance policy for a building complex is developed. The method is based upon information likely to be available and specific subjective assessments which could be made available.
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Maintenance Policies and Strategies
2011In this chapter we will analyse the various strategies that we have referred to above, on the basis of an important premise: it is quite easy to have a certain degree of confusion in identifying the various approaches to maintenance, because the diversities that authors attempt to bring to light are often fuzzy and difficult to render in a complete ...
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Chapter 56 Maintenance policies
2011This chapter considers the absolute necessity for authorities to give due consideration to, formulate and approve maintenance policies. Transport is fundamental to economic prosperity through the generation of job opportunities, increased ranges of goods in the shops, improved efficiency and effectiveness of industry and greater freedom as to the ...
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Selective Maintenance for Systems under Imperfect Maintenance Policy
2014Due to the advent of complex engineering systems in the last few decades, reliability and maintenance issues are gaining more attention than ever. Maintenance is important to keep a system running and ensure that it performs its functions satisfactorily. Often, there are limited resources to complete the maintenance of a system.
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Characteristics of Optimal Maintenance Policies
Management Science, 1961This paper presents an approach to maintenance planning which utilizes mathematics and economic theory to help select an optimal maintenance condition. The maintenance problem is discussed first with respect to short run (daily) routine operating decisions, and then with respect to long run decisions as they relate to equipment design and to ...
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Maintenance Policies for Multicomponent Systems: An Overview
1996We present an overview of some recent developments in the area of mathematical modelling of maintenance decisions for multicomponent systems. We do not claim to be complete, but rather we expose some ideas both in modelling and in solution procedures which turned out to be useful in understanding and supporting complex maintenance management decision ...
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