A methodology for the development of PM using the modern approaches of FMEA, root-cause analysis, and fault-tree analysis is presented. Applying PM leads to a cost reduction in maintenance and less overall energy expenditure. Implementation of PM is preferable to the present reactive maintenance procedures (still prevalent in Nigeria). 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Patient safety concerns in healthcare are not new or unexpected, and one goal of all healthcare organizations is to provide the safest possible care for patients and their families. With that goal in mind, Annapolis Valley Health, a rural district health authority in Nova Scotia, identified the need to develop expertise in the use of failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) as a tool to promote...

Software Configuration Management (SCM) aims to control the development of complex software systems. Traditional SCM systems treat text files as central artifacts, so they are mainly developed for source code. Such a system is not suitable model-based with model-centric artifacts. When applying traditional development, new challenges such model mapping, differentiation, and merging arise. Many ...

The software industry plays a vital role in driving technological advancements. Software projects are complex and consist of many components, so change is unavoidable these projects. requirements must be predicted early to preserve resources, since it can lead project failures. This work focuses on small-scale systems which changed gradually. provides probabilistic prediction model, predicts th...

In agile software development (ASD), where minimal documentation and rapid delivery are the focus, Quality requirements (QRs) often underspecified not documented. Guidelines supporting QR task scarce. The study developed Agile QR-Doc guidelines, which aim to support in ASD. We applied a design science research methodology (DSRM) build QR-Doc. used survey questionnaire open discussion with ten p...

In industry, the failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) methodology is one of main tools used for reliability management in product design development. However, academic literature highlights several shortcomings FMEA methodology. Therefore, purposes this paper are weaknesses FMEA, improvement method, implementation a new able to support quality more efficient way. Motivated by these objective...