Cell-size maintenance: universal strategy revealed

Cell-size maintenance: universal strategy revealed.

How cells maintain a stable size has fascinated scientists since the beginning of modern biology, but has remained largely mysterious. Recently, however, the ability to analyze single bacteria in real time has provided new, important quantitative insights into this long-standing question in cell biology.

American Self-Identification: A Strategy of Maintenance

Situated Design and Universal Maintenance :

Attempts of sharing and reusing software tools are growing in today's ICT design world, and open sourcing software seem to become a good practice for this end. Although some people have reservation over the quality and usability of free/libre open source software (FLOSS), there are plenty lessons we can learn from the evolution of FLOSS. Here, we suggest a software evolution pattern named 'Situ...

Strategic maintenance management: Formulating maintenance strategy

In recent decades, by introducing lean manufacturing the vulnerability to system disturbances has increased and so, the demand for dependable production equipment. The need for having high production equipment availability causes companies to need a more effective and efficient maintenance strategy in order to stay competitive. Despite the increasing demand on reliable production equipment, few...

Maintenance management decision model for preventive maintenance strategy on production equipment

In industries, Preventive Maintenance (PM) is not a new practice to minimise the sudden breakdown of production machine. PM will be performed at predetermine intervals to provide a balance between failure cost and component utilisation (aging). However, most of PM interval is based on experience or original equipment manufacturer (OEM) recommendations. Consequently, the benefits from PM are not...