Introduction Medical equipment is an essential health intervention tool used by nurses for prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease and for rehabilitation of patients. However, access to functioning medical equipment is a challenge in low- and middle-income countries. The World Health Organization estimated that 50 to 80 percent of medical equipment in developing countries is not working,...

In this paper we focus on a continuously deteriorating two units series equipment which its failure can not be measured by cost criterion. For these types of systems avoiding failure during the actual operation of the system is extremely important. In this paper we determine inspection periods and maintenance policy in such a way that failure probability is limited to a pre-specified value and ...

Introduction Pharmaceutical production is one of the most heavily regulated industries. With such an emphasis on product quality within the industry and with such economic and health consequences due to machine failure, the maintenance team plays a crucial role in the success of the product. It is the maintenance department’s responsibility to ensure equipment is kept to its maximum operating c...

A fusion power plant must have a high availability to be competitive in the electrical generation market. Attaining high plant availability is difficult because the fusion power core has a limited service lifetime. Moreover, the core components are radioactive and very large. To assess these issues, the maintainability of the ARIES fusion power core was analyzed and integrated into the early po...

Nowadays, according to the liberalization and development of Romanian energy market, asset management in energy industry require a new approach, because the assets of electrical companies need a specific maintenance strategy for all electrical equipment and also involve the decision-making process about the company assets. This paper present the time evolution of the maintenance strategies, the...

the infrastructure of the electricity grid and super grid system in the hitherto industrialized world was to a large extent built up in the decades following world war ii with a peak in investments around 1960-1980. this means that the flotilla of power transformers is now starting to reach projected lifetime of around 40 years. during the last couple of decades there has also been an ongoing d...

Formal definitions for the components of efficiency and capacity, mathematical formulas for computing overall efficiency, and data collection strategies are proposed for rigorous measurement of equipment efficiency and equipment capacity. Measurement of overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) under the TPM paradigm is revised to become a true quantitative measure of efficiency that we term overal...

The concept of advanced maintenance management technique in the field of heavy duty mining machinery/equipment has recently been developed in India. This maintenance concept has the significance of creating a support system for mining equipment functioning. Functional maintenance is one of the most frequently used methods in maintenance management for mining industries. Management of a custom b...