this paper presents a new bridge management system (j-bms). it is integrated with a concrete bridge rating expert system that can be used to evaluate the serviceability of existing concrete bridges. the proposed j-bms not only evaluates the performance of bridges, but also offers a rehabilitation strategy based on a combination of maintenance cost minimization and quality maximization. in this ...

Production scheduling and preventive maintenance planning decisions are inter-dependent but most often made independently. Given that maintenance affects available production time and elapsed production time affects the probability of machine failure, this interdependency seems to be overlooked in the literature. We propose an integrated model that simultaneously determines production schedulin...

In this paper is researched how to achieve an effective fleet maintenance planning in transport companies, which contributes in increasing the fleet energy efficiency and in achieving the companies’ goal. Within the fleet maintenance planning, managers have to make the right decisions on the selection of vehicle service centers in the region where the maintenance work will be realized. The ment...

Many industrial sectors are concerned on developing optimal maintenance planning because of the importance of maintenance on the economy and safety. Traditionally, the maintenance planning is formulated in terms of a multi-objective optimization problem where reliability, availability, maintainability and cost act as decision criteria and surveillance test and maintenance strategies act as deci...

This paper draws on the “human reliability” concept as a structure for gaining insight into the maintenance workforce assessment in a process industry. Human reliability hinges on developing the reliability of humans to a threshold that guides the maintenance workforce to execute accurate decisions within the limits of resources and time allocations. This concept offers a worthwhile point of de...

Maintenance and, in particular, maintenance policy plays a major -*art in achieving systems operational effectiveness at minimkm cost. The traditional approach to maintenance planning involves selecting optimal policies from known maintenance strategies such as scheduled inspection, preventive maintenance, corrective maintenance, oncondition maintenance etc. Using a traditional approach one may...

This paper deals a production and maintenance optimization problem for a wind turbine system in order to satisfy a random demand under given service level. A jointly optimization is made by combining between energy production and maintenance plan in order to establish an economical energy production planning and an optimal maintenance strategy according to the wind turbine degradation. The key ...