Assessing asset monitoring levels for maintenance operations

Assessing Asset Pricing Anomalies

The optimal portfolio strategy is developed for an investor who has detected an asset pricing anomaly but is not certain that the anomaly is genuine rather than merely apparent. The analysis takes account of the fact that the parameters of both the underlying asset pricing model and the anomalous returns are estimated rather than known. The value that an investor would place on the ability to i...

Maintenance Contract Model for Complex Asset/Equipment

Assessing asset indices.

The use of asset indices in welfare analysis and poverty targeting is increasing, especially in cases in which data on expenditures are unavailable or hard to collect. We compare alternative approaches to welfare measurement. Our analysis shows that inferences about inequalities in education, health care use, fertility, and child mortality, as well as labor market outcomes, are quite robust to ...

Plant asset management - Products for intelligent maintenance

2 Introduction How can the productivity of a plant with a high level of automation be increased even further? Surveys have indicated that plant operators in all sectors consider increased availability and shorter downtimes to be the most effective lever toward increasing productivity. Investigations have shown that downtimes are frequently the result of insufficient maintenance – despite the fa...

Modeling of Maintenance Operations