In any organization, the importance of failuremanagement cannot bementionedby a single word. However,most failure analysis is dominated by themanufacturing sector, despite the increasing importance of the service sector. In response, this paper proposes a systematic approach for identifying and evaluating potential failures using a service-specific failure mode and effect analysis (service-spec...

Wind turbine failure and downtime can often compromise the profitability of a wind farm due to their high impact on the operation and maintenance (O&M) costs. Early detection of failures can facilitate the changeover from corrective maintenance towards a predictive approach. This paper presents a cost-e↵ective methodology to combine various alarm analysis techniques, using data from the Supervi...

Recent pension reforms in Europe have implemented a link between retirement age and life expectancy. The accurate forecast of tables expectancy is hence paramount for governmental policy financial institutions. We developed multi-population mortality model which includes cause-specific environment using Archimedean copulae to dependence various groups causes death. For this, Dutch data on cause...