Airline maintenance operations affect the potential for flight delays and can also affect flight safety if signals of technical problems are missed or misinterpreted. In this paper, we use a probabilistic risk analysis model, represented by an influence diagram, to quantify the effect of an airline’s maintenance policy on delays, cancellations and in-flight safety. The model represents the lead...

In semiconductor fabrication, dynamic interactions among chamber deterioration, operation characteristics, and wafer yield necessitate an intelligent decision making policy for maintenance. However, only simple heuristic rules for maintenance scheduling are currently employed in semiconductor fabs. Therefore, there is a clear need for a more formal framework for maintenance decision making. The...

one of important problems in supply chains management is supplier selection. in a company, there are massive data from various departments so that extracting knowledge from the company’s data is too complicated. many researchers have solved this problem by some methods like fuzzy set theory, goal programming, multi objective programming, the liner programming, mixed integer programming, analyti...

This paper describes a new approach to optimisation of railway track maintenance and renewal works via genetic algorithms. Decision support systems and genetic algorithms are used in this study to optimise railway track maintenance and renewal activities. The results obtained in the scope of this study show that planned maintenance and renewal management systems can be developed and successfull...

Network Geographic Information System is a GIS based on Web technical standards and communication protocol of network , a product of Web technology and GIS technology, it is based on Internet / Intranet to provide users with information distributed in space, data sharing, exchange and cooperation. WebGIS make full use of network resources, a large scale to reduce costs and complexity of dealing...

This paper presents an advanced model for the integrated management for industrial plant maintenance and equivalent. The proposed model achieves to align the local maintenance objectives with the overall business objectives. Additionally, the model provides a real operational context and takes consideration of certain restrictions that may affect the efficiency and/or the effectiveness of the i...

the management of machine replacement (specifically tractors) is one of the most critical factors for performing field operations on time. therefore, tractor repair and maintenance costs must be accurately predicted. this research was carried out to evaluate the use of the regression technique in predicting tractor repair and maintenance costs. the study was conducted using empirical data on 60...

Predictive Maintenance can provide an increase in safety, quality and availability in industrial plants. However, the setting up of a Predictive Maintenance Programme is a strategic decision that until now has lacked analysis of questions related to its setting up, management and control. In this paper, an evaluation system is proposed that carries out the decision making in relation to the fea...

Aurora Vizcaíno, Jesús Favela, Mario Piattini Grupo Alarcos, Escuela Superior de Informática, Ciudad Real (Spain) CICESE, Ensenada (México)

Due to unreliable production facility and stochastic preventive maintenance, deriving an optimal production inventory decision in practice is very complicated. In this paper, we develop a production model for deteriorating items with stochastic preventive maintenance time and rework using the first in first out (FIFO) rule. From our literature search, no study has been done on the above problem...