The paper focuses on the urgency of the implementation of cloud technologies, which are a necessary condition for the development of enterprise management systems, give rise to a complex of insufficiently studied phenomena and processes and determine the need to find new tools in making and implementing reasonable management decisions. In the process of research, the sequence of construction an...

Engineering asset management (EAM) is a broad discipline with distributed functions and services. When engineering assets are capital intensive, management requires specialized expertise for diagnosis, prognosis, maintenance and repairs. The current practice of EAM relies on self maintained experiential rules with coordinated collaboration and outsourcing for maintenance and repairs. In order t...

In this research, we study an optimal overhaul–replacement policy of a multi-degraded repairable system sold with a free replacement warranty. In the proposed replacement policy, a maintenance action and failure are dependent on a system degradation level and the system age, and hence the replacement model will provide more effective maintenance decisions. Failure of the system is modeled using...

The competitiveness and performance of manufacturing companies depend on the availability, reliability and productivity of their production equipment. This recognition has led to a drastic change of perception on maintenance over the past decades, evolving from a ‘‘necessary evil’’ to a ‘‘value adding’’ activity. In order to ensure a good performance of the production plant, maintenance manager...

a few years after the implementation of computerize maintenance management systems (cmms), showing the analysis results of the collected data in these systems is necessary and important for continuing the usage of these systems. equipment downtime and cost data can identify patterns of equipment faults and equipment costs. it can also show deficiencies in the implementation of maintenance syste...

This research present a system named Prioritization System (PS) to support the maintenance engineers while they are making the decision about the priorities for maintenance applications of school buildings. Distinguished from the other research done before, which built the priority model only with historical data, the PS presented in this research bases both on historical data and knowledge, wh...

With increasing popularity of knowledge based systems carrying out distributed decision-making, respecification of known knowledge classification is inevitable. This contribution highlights an important role of mutual awareness among collaborating agents in a distributed decision support system. Basic properties and use of social knowledge will be introduced and an acquaintance model as a forma...

Many maintenance decisions require the evaluation of alternative solutions in terms of complex maintenance criteria such as cost, repairability, reliability and availability requirements. Such problems can be formulated as multi-criteria decision making problems. The relative importance of maintenance criteria is difficult to be assessed, and therefore a sensitivity analysis becomes a necessity...