Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering: Volume 3 Issue 2

An enhanced approach for implementing total productive maintenance in the manufacturing environment

Benjamin S. Blanchard

Many systems in use today are not performing as intended, nor are they cost effective in terms of their operation and support. Manufacturing systems, in particular, often operate…

Contracting out maintenance and a plan for future research

H.H. Martin

Presents a discussion of the research survey carried out at the Faculty of Technology Management at the Eindhoven University of Technology concerning contractors’ maintenance…

Case studies on disturbance registration for continuous improvement

Rudi De Smet, Ludo Gelders, Liliane Pintelon

States that companies are moving more and more towards becoming learning organizations. It is expected that in the future the ability to learn will be a core competence and an…

Optimal replacement policy and the structure of software for condition‐based maintenance

A.K.S. Jardine, D. Banjevic, V. Makis

States that the concept of condition‐based maintenance (CBM) has been widely accepted in practice since it enables maintenance decisions to be made based on the current state of…

Estimation of distribution parameters of mixed failure mode data

Rudi H.P.M. Arts, Anuj Saxena, Gerald M. Knapp

Describes research into the problem of estimating the distribution parameters of failure data of industrial equipment subject to two failure modes.It is assumed that time to…

Small data sets and preventive maintenance modelling

K.A.H. Kobbacy, D.F. Percy, B.B. Fawzi

Preventive maintenance (PM) is an effective maintenance policy which is widely applied in industry. Reviews the main approaches of modelling PM and discusses the characteristics…

A note on block and bad‐as‐old renewal of components with limited system time horizon

David Sherwin

As the time to dispose of a system approaches, renewal of wearing components becomes progressively less attractive. The traditional optimization method for this situation is…