Nowadays offshore wind energy is the renewable energy source with the highest growth. Offshore wind farms are composed of large and complex wind turbines, requiring a high level of reliability, availability, maintainability and safety (RAMS). Firms are employing robust remote condition monitoring systems in order to improve RAMS, considering the difficulty to access the wind farm. The main obje...

Software developed using a proven methodology exhibits an inherent capability to readily accept the changes in its evolution. This constant phenomenon of change is managed through maintenance of software. By modelling software using Aspect Oriented Software Development (AOSD) methodology, the designer can build highly modularized software that allows changes with lesser impact compared with a n...

In most of the industries, classical reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) is employed to decide the maintenance strategies using reliability data without having adequate interaction with the design and operational systems. This means that the RCM process will be conducted with no or limited access to the design and operational data/knowledge. Commonly, the developed maintenance strategies are...

Maintainability of the software is one of the key quality while evaluating software product. Of the overall software development cost, major stake is employed at the maintenance phase. Maintenance time of software is always greater than its development time, so it becomes essential to measure the maintainability of software so that maintenance operational time can be brought down.While going ov...

Long-term reliability of processors in embedded systems is experiencing growing attention since decreasing feature sizes and increasing power consumption have a negative influence on the lifespan. Among other measures, the reliability can be influenced significantly by Dynamic Power Management (DPM), since it affects the processor’s temperature. Compared to single-core systems reconfigurable mu...

The system with a low level of reliability of being deployed in a cold climate often needs special and additional focus on maintainability characteristics in order to achieve the higher level of productivity, system availability and safety. Therefore, the maintainability issue is critical for the successful and effective operation of oil and gas installations in the Arctic environment as the wo...

Abstract The article discusses the issues and a number of technical recommendations for effective use existing agricultural reclamation equipment available in clusters republic, as well prospects their development large-scale implementation technological processes those problems that may arise during operation ways to eliminate them production conditions. A irreplaceable are given modernization...

The notion of maintenance often appears in the AI literature in the context of agent behavior and planning. In this paper we argue that earlier characterizations of the notion of maintenance is not intuitive to characterize the maintenance behavior of certain agents. We propose a diierent characterization of maintenance and distinguish it from earlier notions such as stabilizability and the tem...