Benefits In the past, preventive maintenance was performed without any guidance or regard for safety or cost concerns, as long as systems performed their functions. The primary reason for the development of RCM was to implement a preventive maintenance strategy that could adequately address system availability and safety at the lowest possible cost. The RCM process answers and directs preventiv...

This article presents a Decision Support System which focuses on an important organizational context: maintenance decisions. Usually, a specific management system is required to deal with data on failure, reliability, maintainability and availability regarding equipment. The maintenance context is surrounded by uncertainty and does not provide a clear profit from its activities, and thus requir...

 Abstract: Maintenance of assembly and manufacturing equipment is crucial to ensure productivity, product quality, on-time delivery, and a safe working environment. Predictive Maintenance is an approach that utilises the condition monitoring data to predict the future machine conditions and make decisions upon this prediction. The main aim of the presented research is to achieve an improvement...

Title of Document: AN OPTIONS APPROACH TO QUANTIFY THE VALUE OF DECISIONS AFTER PROGNOSTIC INDICATION Gilbert Haddad, Doctor of Philosophy, 2011 Directed By: Professor Peter A. Sandborn and Professor Michael G. Pecht, Mechanical Engineering Safety, mission and infrastructure critical systems have started adopting prognostics and health management, a discipline consisting of technologies and met...

Software maintenance has long been one of the most difficult and expensive phases of the software life-cycle. Maintenance is especially difficult for large-scale systems. The more code involved, the larger the chance that there may be unexpected interactions that may cause problems when updates and corrections are made during maintenance. The large number of developers who were probably involve...

This paper reports the experience of an architecture team of a software development department with 25 agile teams in supporting technical decisions regarding technical practices. The main motivation to use technical debt metaphor was its acknowledged potential in driving software development and maintenance decisions, especially those long term maintenance tradeoffs which are usually less visi...

Unexpected system failures pose significant problems in power industry and most manufacturing companies. In some cases, a critical component failure can incur catastrophic events and huge economic loss. To maintain machines at high level of reliability, some companies perform time-based preventive maintenance or age-based preventive maintenance to avoid sudden failure of machines. Usually, prev...