Utilising the digital capital of buildings, including building information modelling (BIM), is crucial for owners from perspective high-level maintenance. This case study concerns a company in which models are received as files complying with Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) standard. An analysis content IFC was performed to investigate whether files, were generated construction project using ...

Treatment of transport networks of the winter period is a key responsibility of maintenance teams whether in the private or public sector. With tightening budgets and increasing statutory requirements, maintenance teams are looking to improve the treatment of networks by improving ice prediction techniques. Improved forecasting techniques leads to financial savings, reduction in environmental d...

The software maintenance process is one of the most costly activities within information system practice. The purpose of this paper is to address some of the difficulties in this process, by proposing a framework for the development of maintenance model. Essential to the software maintenance process is an ability to understand not only the software but the required changes as well. This can onl...

We present a software acquisition meta-model, called SAMM, for Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) software acquisition. Our model is a meta-model in that it includes sections that use other, detailed, models for specific tasks. SAMM is a complete life-cycle model that begins with an end-user need and ends with software maintenance. We have adapted several other models in to SAMM and added several ...

A large software project may be distributed over multiple sites when the organization believes that there are not enough people to staff a single collocated team. However, previous empirical research in the context of telecommunication organizations has shown that distance may increase cycle time and costs. We report on a large software massive maintenance project in the information systems dom...

Although appropriate sizing of software projects is a concern in software development, Information Systems managers generally do not consider maintenance project size as a potentid influence on software maintenance productivity. This view ignores potential efficiency gains which may arise from proactive renovation strategies such as batching similar maintenance requests into larger projects. In...

In many industrial environments, systems are required to perform a sequence of operations (or missions) with finite breaks between each operation. During these breaks, it may be advantageous to perform repair and replace on some of the system’s components. However, it may not be possible to perform all desirable maintenance activities prior to the beginning of the next mission due to limitation...

Condition monitoring is the foundation of a condition based maintenance (CBM). To relate the information obtained from the condition monitoring to the actual state of the system, it is usually required a stochastic model. On the other hand, considering the interactions and similarities that exist between CBM and statistical process control (SPC), the integrated models for CBM and SPC have been ...