Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering: Volume 19 Issue 1

Life cycle cost analysis on the operation of power generation

Ngapuli I. Sinisuka, Herry Nugraha

The purpose of this paper is to study the life cycle cost (LCC) on the operation of power generation. LCC is the total cost of ownership including the cost of the project or asset…

Optimal maintenance policies for cumulative damage models with random working times

Xufeng Zhao, Syouji Nakamura, Toshio Nakagawa

The purpose of this paper is to consider maintenance policies for an operating system which works at random times for jobs. Each job causes some damage to the system and these…

Minimal cut sequences and top event probability of dynamic fault tree

Tetsushi Yuge, Taijiro Yoneda, Nobuyuki Tamura, Shigeru Yanagi

This paper aims to present a method for calculating the top event probability of a fault tree with priority AND gates.

A geometric process maintenance model and optimal policy

Yeh Lam

The purpose of this paper is to study a geometric process (GP) maintenance model and policy for a repairable system.

Skills for the management of turnaround maintenance projects

Christopher C. Obiajunwa

The aim of this study is to identify and establish management skills/knowledge required for the successful management of turnaround maintenance (TAM) projects.

Production and maintenance performance analysis: manual versus semi‐automatic LHDs

Anna Gustafson, Håkan Schunnesson, Diego Galar, Uday Kumar

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate and analyse the production and maintenance performance of a manual and a semi‐automatic load haul dump (LHD) machine to find similarities…

Guest editorial

Li-Rong Cui, Yu Hayakawa

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