A new framework for the implementation of reliability centered maintenance (RCM) in the initial design phases of industrial chemical processes was developed and implemented. Fuzzy reasoning algorithms were designed to evaluate and assess the likelihood of equipment failure mode precipitation and aggravation. Furthermore, an approximate reasoning scheme which considers local, product, and adjace...

Behavior can be defined as combination of variable’s values according to external inputs or environmental changes. This definition can be applied to persons, equipment, social systems or industrial processes. This paper proposes a probabilistic mechanism to represent the behavior of industrial equipment and an algorithm to identify deviations to this behavior. The anomaly detection mechanisms, ...

The main objective of this research paper is to ascertain the problems and causes related to the failure of health care equipment and devices in Hyderabad public sector hospitals and to recommend policies and strategies to develop a procedure or mechanism for better management of health care equipment to improve health care delivery and to minimize wastage of scarce public resources. A structur...

We reviewed all patient safety incidents reported to the UK National Patient Safety Agency between August 2006 and February 2007 from intensive care or high dependency units. Incidents involving equipment were then categorised. A total of 12 084 incidents were submitted from 151 organisations (median (range) 40 (1-634) per organisation). Of these, 1021 incidents were associated with use of equi...

We hypothesized that our institutional standard practice for preanesthesia equipment checkout, based in part on US Food and Drug Administration recommendations, failed to detect a significant number of faults (absent or nonfunctional equipment). We designed a new, computer-based, highly interactive electronic checklist that emulated the checklist methods used in aviation and military settings a...

Reliability engineering focuses on the ability of physical equipment to function without failure [...]

In order to perform Preventive Maintenance (PM), two approaches have evolved in the literature. The traditional approach is based on the use of statistical and reliability analysis of equipment failure. Under statistical-reliability (S-R)-based PM, the objective of achieving the minimum total cost is pursued by establishing fixed PM intervals, which are statistically optimal, at which to replac...

Properly functioning equipment is critical during direct laryngoscopy for endotracheal intubation. When the light source on a laryngoscope fails, proper visualization of the glottic opening is then extremely difficult in the then dark vault of the oropharynx, and alternative endotracheal intubation techniques must often be employed in a time sensitive manor. Laryngoscopic light source failure m...

Power generation from wind farms is growing rapidly around the world. In past decade, energy has played an important role in contributing to sustainable development. However, turbines are extremely susceptible component damage under complex environments and over long-term operational cycles, which directly affects their maintenance, reliability, operating costs. It crucial realize efficient ear...