Maintenance strategies and reliability optimization / guest editors: Abdelhakim Artiba and Fouad Riane.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Artiba, A.

Riane, Fouad.

Series:

Journal of quality in maintenance engineering ; v. 11, no. 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Facility management.

Plant engineering.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (85 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bradford, England : Emerald Group Publishing, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Maintenance is as an essential factor that can lead to the reduction of ""inefficiencies"" and has to be considered as a well-established Enterprise Domain and as a profit centre. The development of optimized maintenance strategies may have great impacts not only on the equipment availability and cost optimization, but also on the product quality, environment protection, human safety, energy control, zero waste and enterprise strategy.

Contents:

CONTENTS; EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD; Guest editorial; Joint optimal periodic and conditional maintenance strategy; To maintain or not to maintain? What should a risk-averse decision maker do?; Optimal design of series production lines with unreliable machines and finite buffers; Artificial neural networks for reliability maximization under budget and weight constraints; Appraisal of farm tractor maintenance practices and costs in Nigeria; Reliability and operating environment-based spare parts estimation approach

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-280-50895-7

9786610508952

1-84544-315-2

OCLC:

191038916