The practices of conventional methods for maintenance management in Malaysian Industrialised Building System (IBS) building faced many issues due to IBS component aesthetic and structural defects which occurred repeatedly compared to building maintenance on conventional building, no integration between maintenance systems, lack of co-ordination between design and construction, less defect diagn...

Corresponding Author: Alberto Martinetti Design, Production and Management, University of Twente, The Netherlands Email: [email protected] Abstract: The conveyor belt represents one of the most commonly used methods of transporting bulk materials today. As highlighted multiple times in research, the moving parts are a critical issue causing accidents and injuries and several of these are ...

Software maintenance phase is started once a software project has been developed and delivered. After that, any modification to it corresponds to maintenance. Software maintenance involves modifications to keep a software project usable in a changed or a changing environment, to correct discovered faults, and modifications, and to improve performance or maintainability. Software maintenance and...

The National Bridge Stock of Iran consists of about 330,000 bridges, of which around 50% are older than 30 years. Since 2010, Iran Road Maintenance & Transportation Organization has started implementing a comprehensive Bridge Management System in order to manage this aged stock efficiently. To predict future conditions of bridge stock, a heuristic numerical method is presented. This methodology...

Copyright © 2003, Idea Group Publishing. ABSTRACT The Web has become the primary means for information dissemination. It is ideal for publishing data residing in a variety of repositories, such as databases. In such a multi-tier system (client Web server underlying database), where the Web page content is dynamically derived from the database (Web-powered database), cache management is very imp...

Nowadays, IT organizations have encountered growing challenges in the management and maintenance of large scale heterogeneous distributed computing systems because these systems attempt to be active and available at all hours. Moreover, current programming languages, methods, and management tools are inadequate to handle complexity, scale, dynamism, heterogeneity, and uncertainty as the most im...