Employing equipment reliability databases can generate a process of continual improvement. This paper suggests a methodology that uses equipment reliability databases, and a process of benchmarking to establish a continual improvement procedure by learning "how others are doing it". A simple decision-making procedure is suggested too, to assist in prioritizing the processes/equipment that are c...

This paper describes a new maintenance selection and scheduling approach for bulk transmission equipment that is based on the cumulative long-term risk caused by each piece of equipment. This approach not only accounts for equipment failure probability and equipment damage, as do most state of the art reliability centered maintenance (RCM) approaches, but it also accounts for the outage consequ...

Provide a methodology to simulate the financial response of multiple participants of a two sided auction including reliability, substitutes, and other ancillary services. Methodology would provide justification for generation and customer equipment as required for system expansion with an optimal portfolio of equipment to maximize system operation at a specified level of reliability. Research S...

In this paper, a new method for modelling and estimation of reliability parameters of power transformer components in distribution and transmission voltage levels for preventive-corrective maintenance schedule of transformers is proposed. In this method, with optimal estimation of Weibull distribution parameters using least squares method and input data uncertainty reduction, failure rate and p...

The importance of Equipment Maintenance and Replacement strategies addressing system reliability issues in North American power grids is growing. The reliability of these grids typically comprises lightning and weather induced outages, trees, animals and equipment deterioration. Vegetation management, automation (especially in distribution), insulation coordination and system hardening are comm...