Hanshin Expressway Public Corporation had been privatized in 2005 and has responsibility for maintaining service level of civil structures at sound condition and completely paying off its debt within 45 years after privatization. Therefore, it is an important issue to establish maintenance and rehabilitation plan considering the payment of the debt. This study addresses on Hanshin Expressway as...

Maintenance management is one of the main focuses in industrial sector. Many maintenance functions with varieties optimization models have been proposed to aid maintenance management. However, there are limited models have been implemented in small and medium industries (SMIs). The data problems and the gap between theory and practice have always become a reason. In this paper, a new maintenanc...

This paper proposes an agent-based approach for real-time collaborative monitoring and maintenance of equipments and machines. The proposed approach automates the maintenance management process by utilizing intelligent softvvare agents. The maintenance schedules are achieved by automated real time negotiation among software agents representing geographically distributed field engineers and a br...

Highways and in particular their pavements are the fundamental components of the road network. They require continuous maintenance since they deteriorate due to changing traffic and environmental conditions. Monitoring methods and efficient pavement management systems are needed for optimizing maintenance operations. Pavement performance prediction models are useful tools for determining the op...

One of the causes of aviation accidents is lack of overview and analysis of the data particularly obtained from its maintenance operation performance. The aircraft maintenance system of an airline is a complex structure with information flow involving various stakeholders ensuring aircraft airworthiness while adhering to several regulatory standards, policies and procedures of Federal Aviation ...

Introduction: For the past 7 years, a nursing school has conducted biannual medical missions in a virtually inaccessible area in Haiti. Each medical mission team provides primary care, pediatric and gynecological examinations for up to 6 days in the impoverished island nation. Methods: To improve the safety of participants engaged in this humanitarian tra...

This paper aims at proposing reference models to integrate the predictive maintenance in manufacturing system. This integration is based on the functioningmalfunctioning model of a manufacturing system, and on the contribution of predictive maintenance system and supervisory control for predictive maintenance. The results of this integration is an upgrade information-based repository for the in...

Equipment logistics, maintenance, and repair are important aspects of construction equipment management. A well-managed equipment fleet helps reduce downtime, as well as total maintenance and repair costs. With quickly growing fleets of equipment, large contractors tend to divert the maintenance and repair of equipment from equipment managers to project managers. As a result, the equipment mana...