This work describes a controlled experiment comparing maintenance processes derived from two different paradigms: Quick Fix and Iterative Enhancement. The experiment aimed to ascertain to what extent the quality of the maintenance process is affected by the ease of comprehension of the programs and, vice versa, how far the process influences the quality of the system. It would seem that the doc...

This paper uses the Hidden Markov Model to model an industrial process seen as a discrete event system. Different graphical structures based on Markov automata, called topologies, are proposed. We designed a Synthetic Hidden Markov Model based on a real industrial process. This Synthetic Model is intended to produce industrial maintenance observations (or “symbols”), with a corresponding degrad...

Nowadays, the internet and social networks become more popular than ever. People in all ages use the internet and communicate by that. One of the most terrible events in our daily life is to disconnect from the internet and lose the connections. It may also influence on the economics; so the sustainability in this area is necessary. Internet service provider companies are the executors of selli...

Occupational exposures at nuclear power plants occur mostly during maintenance activities rather than during routine reactor operation. In this paper, statistical summaries of occupational exposures during routine maintenance activities for the years 1982-84 at nuclear power plants in Japan are presented, including comparison of the exposure levels by reactor type and by plant age. Average annu...

This thesis aims at characterizing software maintenance activities using Linux kernel, based on calculation of different software metrics. We perform our analysis and calculation for over 800 versions of the Linux kernel. We perform our analysis using several dissections — comparing production and development versions, as well as the new releases branch (2.6), and also comparing the core of the...

Nowadays, production systems seek to integrate production and maintenance activities. An effective maintenance plan can improve maintenance stability and system performance. Machines that stop for repairing operation impose a high cost on the system. On the other hand, there are always some intangible situations during a production process in which repairing activities can be carried out. If th...

This paper presents a dynamic grouping maintenance strategy for multi-component systems with positive economic dependence, which implies that combining maintenance activities is cheaper than performing maintenance on components separately. Preventive maintenance durations and occurrences of maintenance activities within the scheduling horizon are considered. Moreover, in presence of opportuniti...

Production planning and maintenance are two important problems in manufacturing systems. Despite the relationship exists between these two problems due to sudden failures and production capacity occupied by maintenance activities, each of these problems planned separately and as a result program and model efficiencies reduce in the real world. The aim of integrated production and maintena...