IMPROVING ROAD MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES IN RUSSIA

TM 5-626 Unsurfaced Road Maintenance Management

Motorists’ Evaluation of Road Maintenance Management

The road network is extremely valuable. Road Administrations are expected to invest maintenance funding in a way that returns maximum benefit to road users. Cost-benefit analysis is one method to ensure that an adequate return in terms of benefits results from committing expenditure. Today, cost-benefit calculations are frequently used as a base for decision making of investments. The surges fo...

A Training and Educational Demonstration for Improving Maintenance Practices

Improper and unnecessary maintenance actions can result in a waste of resources, time, and money. Training and education play a vital role in maintenance implementation and can be used to prevent improper maintenance procedures. The Center for Predictive Maintenance (CPM) has developed a demonstration framework and tool that can be used to educate and train users extending from maintainers to l...

Improving Shipboard Maintenance Practices Using Non- Intrusive Load Monitoring

Field studies have demonstrated that it is possible to evaluate the state of many shipboard systems by analyzing the power drawn by electromechanical actuators (Cox et al. 2006; Cox et al. 2007; DeNucci et al. 2005; Mitchell et al. 2006; Ramsey et al. 2005). One device that can perform such an analysis is the non-intrusive load monitor (NILM). This paper focuses on specific field studies conduc...

Toward best maintenance practices in communications network management

Best maintenance practices in communications networks management are benchmarking standards that, if carefully implemented, will enhance the integrity, reliability and maintenance costs of communications networks. This paper defines best maintenance practices in communications network management within a concise framework encompassing measurable performance-level goals as well as methods and pr...