Cloud computing can be assumed as a model for delivering information technology services (like storage space, networking, applications etc) in which resources are retrieved from internet using web based tools, rather than a direct connection to server. Cloud computing provides hardware and software resources from a shared pool of resources on rent according to user’s demand. So this technology ...

We address the assessment and improvement of the software maintenance function by proposing improvements to the software maintenance standards and introducing a proposed maturity model for daily software maintenance activities: Software Maintenance Maturity Model (SM). The software maintenance function suffers from a scarcity of management models to facilitate its evaluation, management, and co...

Since lean concept has appeared many works have been done on decreasing or even eliminating of wastes such as extra inventory. Although these studies have not taken into account expected availability seriously. So in this paper, a Multiple Objective Decision Making (MODM) model has been developed by viewpoint of these subjects. They are decreasing wastes and increasing system availability. Wast...

Maintenance helps to extend equipment life by improving its condition and avoiding catastrophic failures. Appropriate model or mechanism is, thus, needed to quantify system availability vis-a-vis a given maintenance strategy, which will assist in decision-making for optimal utilization of maintenance resources. This paper deals with semi-Markov process (SMP) modeling for steady state availabili...

Fusion of cooperative intelligent sensor nodes in a distributed environment can provide a high performance event monitoring system mainly for security issues. Partitioning the hardware design space into entities called agents, which are autonomous units of execution that have the capability of interacting with the environment and each other has been made much more attractive by the recent advan...

In industries, Preventive Maintenance (PM) is not a new practice to minimise the sudden breakdown of production machine. PM will be performed at predetermine intervals to provide a balance between failure cost and component utilisation (aging). However, most of PM interval is based on experience or original equipment manufacturer (OEM) recommendations. Consequently, the benefits from PM are not...

In today's competitive market, quality has an important role in manufacturing system. The manufacturers attempt to maintain their production system in a proper condition to produce high quality products. One of the key factors to achieve this goal is maintenance policy. Most studies on maintenance focused on machines and less attention has been paid to human resources as the most important fact...