Importance measure-based maintenance strategy considering maintenance costs

Condition based maintenance optimization considering multiple objectives

In condition based maintenance (CBM) optimization, the main optimization objectives include maximizing reliability and minimizing maintenance costs, which are often times conflicting to each other. In this work, we develop a physical programming based approach to deal with the multi-objective condition based maintenance optimization problem. Physical programming presents two major advantages: (...

American Self-Identification: A Strategy of Maintenance

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...

Steering the maintenance costs

Maintenance is a natural and necessary part of the system life cycle and its costs. It is important to control where time and money are spent and what kind of maintenance is performed. For this purpose it is necessary to be able to measure both maintenance, the efforts and costs, and the quality factor maintainability. Such measuring facilitates planning and steering the maintenance work in inf...

Study and application of Reliability-centered Maintenance considering Radical Maintenance

Radical Maintenance (RM) takes the root causes of failures as executive objects to make maintenance decisions. A Root Cause Analysis (RCA) is carried out on the function failure of equipment to performRMand to create a maintenance plan using the combined methods of Failure Mode, Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA), and Fault Tree Analysis (FTA). Evaluation criteria andmatrixes of criticali...