empowerment, improvement programmes and organisational design) and maintenance (prevention and integration) aspects to a greater …

knowledge acquisition in physical asset management: through the benefits achieved from a maintenance management information …

planning (MRP) and production activity control (PAC) techniques, to the management of large‐scale maintenance activities … (specifically aircraft maintenance). This structure had previously been applied to the manufacturing (i.e. assembly) process but the … maintenance problem posed significant new challenges. First, there was the issue of generating a disassembly structure, and second …

Purpose – This paper investigates the determinants of customer choice of a car maintenance service provider after the … drawing on the service quality literature, specific previous studies on car maintenance services, and including other purchase …

Maintenance control deals with the co‐ordination of maintenance demand and resources in such a way that stated … detailed information. A reference framework of decision functions is developed to facilitate the design of maintenance control …

Prediction of the duration of the downtime caused by maintenance, especially in the cases where the system considered … consists of several repairable items, presents a challenge for maintenance managers, because of possible revenue losses during … maintainability measures related to the group replacement maintenance policy. It is applicable to group maintenance tasks in which …

Addresses a deterministic maintenance‐scheduling problem for a group of on‐identical machines. The problem is …

Deals with planning the maintenance scheduling of a group of on‐identical production units. Develops a realistic model …