Maintenance is a natural and necessary part of the system life cycle and its costs. It is important to control where time and money are spent and what kind of maintenance is performed. For this purpose it is necessary to be able to measure both maintenance, the efforts and costs, and the quality factor maintainability. Such measuring facilitates planning and steering the maintenance work in inf...

introduction sarcheshmeh copper mine is regarded as the second largest copper deposit in the world. this is one of the largest industrial-mining complexes in the world and the largest producer of copper in iran. this complex plays an important role in iran’s economy. in 2012, this complex created employment for about 8000 people in iran and produced 203065 tons of copper cathodes. however, high...

The maintenance of transport vehicles represents an important aspect of the operating costs of a TPL (local public transport) company. This work analizes the programmed and corrective maintenance procedures of a recent tram fleet. Starting from machine shop’s data, after a careful technical and economic analysis, a set of two models has been developed in order to forecast and point out time and...

many reports that appeared during the last 20 years have shown that atmospheric pollution causes serious damage to human health and to environment. electricity generation from fuel fossil is one of the major sources of pollution and considerable share of this damage. the price of electricity in iran, as in many other countries also, includes only the production of private costs and ignores any ...