Reliability-based preventive maintenance strategies of road junction systems
International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management
ISSN: 0265-671X
Article publication date: 13 February 2019
Issue publication date: 18 April 2019
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to present a study of reliability-centred maintenance (RCM), which is conducted on the key sub-assets of a newly constructed road junction infrastructure in Nigeria.
Design/methodology/approach
The classical RCM methodology, a type of RCM, which has a top down, zero-based approach for maintenance analysis, is implemented in this study.
Findings
The implementation of the classical RCM is successful in its application of various PM policies assigned to the assets and it shows that its application in the highway industry could reduce excessive maintenance backlog and frequent reactive maintenance by effective optimisation of its preventive maintenance (PM) intervals.
Practical implications
Road junctions are originators of more than 70 per cent of road traffic congestion and account for high accident rate. The traditional methods of reliability assurance used in the highway industry such as reactive maintenance and routine maintenance are often inadequate to meet the round the clock usage demands of these assets, thus the consideration for the application of a systematic RCM process for maintaining the system function by selecting and applying effective PM tasks.
Originality/value
It uses an approach that critically develops and analyses thoroughly preventive and continuous maintenance strategy in a new circumstance with environment of uncertainty and limited operating data. The case-based reasoning cycle has been applied in the RCM approach with real-time data obtained from a UK-based network maintenance management system for highway infrastructures.
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Citation
Tee, K.F. and Ekpiwhre, E. (2019), "Reliability-based preventive maintenance strategies of road junction systems", International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management, Vol. 36 No. 5, pp. 752-781. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJQRM-01-2018-0018
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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