The present work adopted Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) methodology to evaluate marginal oilfield Early Production Facility (EPF) system properly understand its functional failures and develop an efficient maintenance strategy for the system. outcome of RCM conducted a typical EPF within Niger Delta zone Nigeria provides indication equipment whose failure can significantly affect operat...

logistics network is expected that opened facilities work continuously for a long time horizon without any failure; but in real world problems, facilities may face disruptions. This paper studies a reliable joint inventory location problem to optimize cost of facility locations, customers’ assignment, and inventory management decisions when facilities face failure risks and doesn’t work. In our...

PURPOSE We investigated whether patient-centered instructions for chronic heart failure medications increase comprehension and memory for medication information in older adults diagnosed with chronic heart failure. DESIGN AND METHODS Patient-centered instructions for familiar and unfamiliar medications were compared with instructions for the same medications from a chain pharmacy (standard ph...

underground caverns in rock salt deposits are the most secure disposal method and a type of gas-storing facility. gas storage plays a vital role in ensuring that a strategic relationship is secured between an established energy infrastructure provider and a midstream energy company. the fischells brook area is a pillow-shaped body of salts located in the st. george's bay area of southwest newfo...

Fault trees have long been used to estimate failure risk in earthquakes, especially for nuclear power plants (NPPs). One interesting application is that one can assess and manage the probability that two facilities - a primary and backup - would be simultaneously rendered inoperative in a single earthquake. Another is that one can calculate the probabilistic time required to restore a facility ...

Large scale outages on real-world critical infrastructures (CIs), although infrequent, are increasingly disastrous to society. In this paper, we model CIs as complex networks and consider the problem of facility allocation on nodes of the network for maximizing the efficiency of supply to other nodes and the resilience of the overall network in resisting to cascading failures. Of course, the in...

The main concentration in the present paper is to analyze a singleunit system using the concepts of inspection, degradation, preventive maintenance, and server failure. A single repair facility inspect the original and degraded unit upon failure to check the feasibility of repair. The repair facility may fail during maintenance, repair and inspection and undergoes for treatment with Weibull pro...

Classical facility location models like the P -median problem (PMP) and the uncapacitated fixed-charge location problem (UFLP) implicitly assume that once constructed, the facilities chosen will always operate as planned. In reality, however, facilities “fail” from time to time due to poor weather, labor actions, changes of ownership, or other factors. Such failures may lead to excessive transp...