Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering: Volume 14 Issue 4

Maintenance audit by means of value analysis technique and decision rules: A case study in a bank

Carmen Carnero, Sheila Delgado

The purpose of this paper is to show that the increase in competitiveness in relation to requirements regarding quality, availability, safety and service has contributed to…

Proactive reliability maintenance: a case study concerning maintenance service costs

Carlos Manuel Inácio da Silva, Carlos Manuel Pereira Cabrita, João Carlos de Oliveira Matias

The purpose of this paper is to emphasize that the choice of the most appropriate maintenance model and policies is the best way to reduce significantly the maintenance costs as…

Assessment of contributions of successful TPM initiatives towards competitive manufacturing

I.P.S. Ahuja, J.S. Khamba

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the contributions of successful TPM initiatives to competitive manufacturing. It also seeks to critically examine implications of…

Multi‐criteria decision‐making approach to evaluate optimum maintenance strategy in textile industry

K. Shyjith, M. Ilangkumaran, S. Kumanan

The purpose of this paper is to focus on the use of analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) to select an…

An optimum condition‐based replacement and spare provisioning policy based on Markov chains

Ling Wang, Jian Chu, Weijie Mao

The purpose of this paper is to develop a condition‐based replacement and spare provisioning policy for deteriorating systems with a number of identical units.

Special issue on the international dissemination of quality management

2008 Awards for Excellence

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