Natural gas processing plants and their associated compressor booster stations emit an estimated 36 billion cubic feet (Bcf) of methane annually. More than 24 Bcf of total methane losses from gas plants are fugitive emissions from leaking compressors and other equipment components such as valves, connectors, seals, and openended lines. Implementing a directed inspection and maintenance (DI&M) p...

SUMMARY When a new version of a sonware system is created, the current version of the system must be shut down while the new version is installed, resulting in software 'downtime'. There are application domains where such downtime is undesirahle if not wholly unacceptable. A dynamic program updating system replaces, or updates, a computer program with a new version while the program continues t...

Predictive Maintenance 4.0 (PdM 4.0) showed a highly positive impact on chilled water system (CWS) maintenance. This research followed the recommendations of systematic literature review (SLR), which was performed PdM applications for CWS at commercial buildings. Per SLR, and to start making an excellent program, faults their frequencies must be identified. Therefore, this constructed industry ...

Green building practices play an important role in achieving sustainability, especially the construction industry. buildings are built to minimise impact on environment while reducing of occupants. Unfortunately, focus is green rather than its maintenance. Correspondingly, Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) a tool that has been promoted for simplicity and advantages maintaining delivery system....

This research aims to investigate the impact of autonomous maintenance on operational performance dimensions that focuses cost, quality, delivery, and flexibility. The sample has targeted departments production operations namely; production, maintenance, projects, quality in Baghdad Company for Soft Drinks. Data collected by using a survey questionnaire. In total (86) staff were invited practic...

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...

In a series of papers, Belady and Lehman [Belady & Lehman, 1976] pioneered the study of the evolution of software. They observed that over time, programs exhibit increasing entropy. As a program evolves, its structure degrades and its size increases, resulting in increased complexity. The increase in program entropy as it evolves makes program maintenance increasingly more difficult, and will u...