Clinical engineering departments in hospitals are responsible for establishing and regulating a Medical Equipment Management Program to ensure that medical devices are safe and reliable. In order to mitigate functional failures, significant and critical devices should be identified and prioritized. In this paper, we present a multi-criteria decision-making model to prioritize medical devices ac...

With rising road construction and maintenance costs and the lack of productivity improvement, automated road construction and maintenance equipment will provide an attractive alternative for the execution of routine work tasks in the future. This paper reviews the typical tasks applicable to this domain, as well as existing and future automated equipment for task execution. The distinction betw...

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 failure of each piece of equipment. This approach not only accounts for equipment failure probability and equipment damage, as do reliability centered maintenance (RCM) approaches, but it also accounts for the outage consequence in ter...

This paper presents an equipment for predictive maintenance in large hydrogenerators. This equipment uses techniques of digital signal processing of the information contained in the electrical variables involved in the operation of the generator. Basically, the current and voltage signals of the generator are monitored and applied the techniques of electric signature analysis. The central idea ...

II The normal duties of-ATC equipment maintenance are to observe performance indicators and measurements, infer &om these data whether the equipment is in good health, and, if a problem is found, diagnose its cause and perform the necessary repairs. Machine intelligence (MI) technology offers a means for automating much of this work load. Indeed, Lincoln Laboratory has developed and fielded sev...

This paper presents a preventive maintenance (PM) policy for leased equipment over a finite lease period L. Maintenance is entrusted to the lessor. The purpose is to determine the PM period T minimizing the expected total cost over the lease period in a context where repairs and PM actions are imperfect and have non-negligible durations. The leased equipment is periodically subjected to imperfe...

The concept of maintenance in the field of complex equipment was developed in the USA being quickly adopted by European countries and Japan. The American maintenance concept has the significance of creating a support system for industrial equipment functioning. Functional maintenance is one of the most frequent used methods in maintenance management for industrial enterprises. This paper tries ...

Training equipment users The primary responsibility for the care and maintenance of equipment rests with the user. Users should understand how their equipment works, what its limitations are, and what it can and cannot do. All of these are usually well described in the user manual that is supplied by the equipment manufacturer or supplier. It is important that users read and understand the user...