Maintenance Strategies Overlook for Devices Under Operation

Two Different Maintenance Strategies in the Hospital Environment: Preventive Maintenance for Older Technology Devices and Predictive Maintenance for Newer High-Tech Devices

A maintenance program generated through the consideration of characteristics and failures of medical equipment is an important component of technology management. However, older technology devices and newer high-tech devices cannot be efficiently managed using the same strategies because of their different characteristics. This study aimed to generate a maintenance program comprising two differ...

Strategies for Studying Maintenance

Phase 1: Study a significant number of maintainers to thoroughly understand the nature of their work. This paper investigates the questions to ask in such a study. A companion paper [1] discusses some methods by which the questions can be answered. Phase 2: Develop and evaluate tools to help the maintainers work better. This work will be based on what we learn from phase 1, as well as ongoing i...

FACTS Devices Allocation Using a Novel Dedicated Improved PSO for Optimal Operation of Power System

Flexible AC Transmission Systems (FACTS) controllers with its ability to directly control the power flow can offer great opportunities in modern power system, allowing better and safer operation of transmission network. In this paper, in order to find type, size and location of FACTS devices in a power system a Dedicated Improved Particle Swarm Optimization (DIPSO) algorithm is developed for de...

Operation of TunnelEmission Devices

Sealing of Rotary Drums for Operation Under Pressurized Conditions