Today’s competitive environment requires that industries succeed in sustaining full production capabilities, while minimizing capital investment. From a maintenance perspective, this means maximizing equipment reliability (i.e., achieving maximum uptime), while extending the plants life. This proactive approach needs a Total Planned Quality Maintenance (TPQM) program, the systemizing of all (i....

As the reliability, availability, maintainability, and safety of industrial equipment have become crucial in context intelligent manufacturing, there are increasing expectations requirements for maintenance policies. Compared with traditional methods, data-driven Predictive Maintenance (PdM), a superior approach to system maintenance, has been paid considerable attention by scholars this field ...

This paper describes the network modeling techniques that were developed to assess the reliability and availability performance of the Combat Information Transport System (CITS). CITS is the backbone network that provides high-capacity transport of data, voice, and video for all active duty and reserve Air Force bases. The model includes the network topology, the configuration and interconnecti...

Based on analysis on reliability and security on three types of two-cell dynamic redundant systems which has been widely applied in modern railway signal system, whose isomorphic Markov model was established in this paper. During modeling several important factors, including common-cause failure, coverage of diagnostic systems, online maintainability, and periodic inspection maintenance, and as...

Background: Despite the number of empirical studies that assess Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD) techniques, more research is required to investigate, for example, how software maintainability is impacted when these techniques are employed. One way to minimize the effort and increase the reliability of results in further research is to systematize empirical studies in Aspect-Oriented...

This study established power-related efficiency measures from the perspective of reliability, namely, power system availability, expected deficiency, accumulated instantaneous capacity, and capacity for a hybrid (HPS) in generic smart grid. Methodologically, supply–demand stochastic model that simultaneously considers inherently nature supply demand was developed to quantify their interrelation...

This paper describes the implementation of a control system for hands-free driving car based on reconfigurable architectures and the virtual instrumentation concepts. The reconfigurable architecture approach means the use of an embedded microprocessor (Microblaze, Xilinx) jointly with several hardware modules, which were described in VHDL hardware description language. The virtual instrumentati...