Flexible manufacturing cells (FMCs) often operate with increasing failure rate due to extensive utilization and wear-outs of equipment. While maintenance plans can eliminate wear-out failures, random failures are still unavoidable. This paper discusses a procedure that combines simulation and analytical models to analyze the effects of corrective, preventive, and opportunistic maintenance polic...

Existing maintenance management systems implement periodic inspections and diagnoses perform to restore damaged facilities, making it difficult establish a long-term analytical budget plan. The Framework Act on Sustainable Infrastructure Management necessitates specific implementation plans for new items. This study proposes detailed method estimating infrastructure cost overcome the limitation...

Maintenance is a vital function in manufacturing systems for maintaining quality. During the coming period two ideas are evolved Total Productive and Quality Management simultaneously with other facts to attain excellence production systems. Various feature of putting into practice (TPM) expressed examined this study. productive maintenance explained thoroughly, philosophy, planning, improvemen...

In this research, we study an optimal overhaul–replacement policy of a multi-degraded repairable system sold with a free replacement warranty. In the proposed replacement policy, a maintenance action and failure are dependent on a system degradation level and the system age, and hence the replacement model will provide more effective maintenance decisions. Failure of the system is modeled using...

INTRODUCTION American health plans can make a substantial contribution to the control of cardiometabolic risk (CMR), a condition associated with both adverse health outcomes and increased cost of care. Our goal was to determine health plan interest in and ability to provide CMR control services. METHODS In January 2008, America's Health Insurance Plans, in collaboration with the HealthPartner...

In the joint initiative ’Dynamic Contracting in Infrastructures’ the aim is to develop a contracting procedure that is able to cope with the additional complexities of recently popular performance based contracts. Commonly in maintenance of (public) infrastructures, such as a national highway network, an asset manager is responsible for high network quality and throughput, while limiting expens...

CONTEXT In contrast to the commercially insured population, the proportion of Medicaid beneficiaries enrolling in health maintenance organizations continues to increase. OBJECTIVE To compare quality of care within and between the Medicaid and commercial populations in 3 types of managed care plans: Medicaid-only plans (serving predominantly Medicaid enrollees), commercial-only plans (serving ...

The technological advancements in field of Computer aided design and manufacturing have led to development of conventional numeric control. The conceptual framework initially designed during the early developments still undergoes few small customized changes as per the challenges. CNC Machines are the contrast to the conventional machining operations which were initially either hand operated, l...

Governments face numerous challenges in sustaining road network conditions. This is attributed to authorities’ shortages of financial and physical infrastructure. As a result, low-cost automated solutions are being pursued solve these problems provide people with appropriate Several attempts have been made improve technologies incorporate them into Pavement Management System (PMS) but limited f...

Maintenance Planning plays a vital role in optimizing the benefits of Integrated Vehicle Health Management (IVHM). The challenge is to identify the right combinations of different types (Preventive, CBM and Run-to-Fail) of maintenance tasks for different subsystems or components of complex systems like an aircraft to achieve the most optimized solution in terms of availability, cost and safety....