In this chapter, we will introduce the basic concepts that constitute what is known as ReliabilityCentered Maintenance. Initially, however, we will briefly discuss how PM has evolved in the industrial world, and most importantly, we will look at how one of the basic tenets of reliability engineering—the “bathtub curve”—can and should influence the formulation of PM tasks. Next, we will look at ...

Achieving an effective maintenance regime in a manufacturing plant is a strategic business issue. It is important to focus engineering priorities and effort onto the right areas in order to realise safety in operations and prevent loss. Quantitative techniques for doing this are available but they typically require specialised skills and are time consuming to apply resources which are frequentl...

A successful Software maintenance process depends on three factors: the maintenance goals, the technical properties of the system and the people performing the software maintenance. Most of the current work to investigate software maintenance only considers the first two factors, ignoring the third factor, which limits the scope and accuracy of these approaches. In this paper, we use change the...

This paper presents a number of techniques that have been developed as components of the software maintenance process as part of the ESPRIT REDO project. These techniques are all based on formal methods, and the work described has provided the mathematical underpinning to a large collaborative project that has been investigating various aspects of software maintenance. The focus of the project ...

Springer Series in Reliability Engineering. Reliability and Optimal Maintenance of Series Systems with Imperfect Repair and.Based on the authors research, Reliability and Optimal Maintenance presents. No DRM included format: PDF eBooks can be used on all Reading Devices.Optimal maintenance policies aim to provide optimum system reliability and safety performance at the lowest possible maintenan...

The Designers’ Workbench is a system, developed by the Advanced Knowledge Technologies (AKT) consortium to support designers in large organizations, such as Rolls Royce, by making sure that the design is consistent with the specification for the particular design as well as with the company’s design rule book(s). Currently, to capture the constraint information, a domain expert (design engineer...

The essentiality of maintenance assessment and maintenance optimization in design stage is analyzed, and the existent problems of conventional maintenance design method are illuminated. MDMVM (Maintenance Design Method based Virtual Maintenance) is illuminated, and the process of MDMVM established, and the MDMVM architecture is given out. The key techniques of MDMVM are analyzed, and include ma...

Since 1996 eleven Finnish companies have participated in the research project which objective was to develop computer supported probabilistic based method for the development of the equipment’s and systems’ reliability and safety. The ideal design approach is one of those problem areas, delaying production and weaken equipments’ and systems’ reliability, availability and safety, are discovered ...

• The work required to design an adequate platform to support maintenance and operation activities related to safety instrumented systems is frequently underestimated. • Clear objectives and, in consequence, a well-designed strategy supported by a software platform facilitates achieving the required levels of safety and the optimization of resources. • Engineering the maintenance of safety inst...

We discuss a service-learning program called EPICS (Engineering Projects In Community Service). More specifically, we describe an effort to incorporate EPICS within Computer Science and Software Engineering curricula at Purdue University and Butler University, respectively. EPICS at Purdue University The EPICS (Engineering Projects In Community Service) program was first created at Purdue Unive...