TQM, maintenance and plant availability

Soil and Plant Nitrogen Availability

An Optimal Preventive Maintenance Model to Enhance Availability and Reliability of Flexible Manufacturing Systems

General preventive maintenance model for the components of a system, which improves the reliability to ‘as good as new,’ was used to optimize the maintenance cost. The cost function of a maintenance policy was minimized under given availability constraint. On the other hand, in order to ensure appropriate reliability and availability, the development of the optimal maintenanc...

Modeling and Availability Analysis of Internet Data Center with various Maintenance Policies

In this paper, the authors have focused on the stochastic analysis of an internet data center (IDC), which consists of a database main server connected to a redundant server. Observing the different possibilities of functioning of the system, analysis has been done to evaluate the various reliability characteristics of the system. The system can completely fail due to failure of redundant serve...

Availability of outpatient methadone maintenance

Background Multiple forms of effective treatment for opioid use disorders (OUDs) exist, but they have remained in short supply and have been underutilized where available. Simultaneously, OUDs persist as a large and growing public health problem across the United States, leading to epidemic levels of overdose death as well as many other damaging societal consequences. Our goal was to assess the...

Interconnections between Reliability, Maintenance and Availability

The assurance of power quality depends on factors which influence the performances of the availability: the reliability and its support – the maintenance. This paper deals with the interactions between the indicators of reliability, maintenance, availability and with the methods for the calculation of the reliability indicators. For an overhead line of 110 kV the characteristics of the reliabil...