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Service life prediction of exterior cladding components under failure conditions

Shohet, Igal; Paciuk, Monica - In: Construction Management and Economics 24 (2006) 2, pp. 131-148

. Typical failure mechanisms in exterior cladding systems, deterioration patterns, and service life limiting coefficients … performance of building components under similar service conditions, at different periods in the building service life. Three …, exposure to air pollution, and poor workmanship. Three typical deterioration patterns under failure conditions were determined …

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Integrated maintenance monitoring of hospital buildings

Shohet, Igal; Lavy-Leibovich, Sarel; Bar-On, Dany - In: Construction Management and Economics 21 (2003) 2, pp. 219-228

The performance of hospital buildings depends to a large degree on the efficiency of maintenance execution. The … analysis. Four key performance indicators (KPIs) were developed. The first, the building performance indicator (BPI), indicates … facilities management: performance management, composition of labour, efficiency of main-tenance operations and organizational …

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Integrated system for maintenance and safety management through FMECA principles and fuzzy inference engine

Savino, Matteo Mario; Brun, Alessandro; Riccio, Carlo - In: European Journal of Industrial Engineering 5 (2011) 2, pp. 132-169

production performance and safety level. It merges the classic FMECA criticality analysis approach with the risk evaluation into …

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Condition monitoring of wind turbines: Techniques and methods

Márquez, García; Pedro, Fausto; Tobias, Andrew Mark; … - In: Renewable Energy 46 (2012) C, pp. 169-178

Wind Turbines (WT) are one of the fastest growing sources of power production in the world today and there is a constant need to reduce the costs of operating and maintaining them. Condition monitoring (CM) is a tool commonly employed for the early detection of faults/failures so as to minimise...

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Wind turbine reliability analysis

Pérez, Pinar; María, Jesús; Márquez, García; … - In: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 23 (2013) C, pp. 463-472

Against the background of steadily increasing wind power generation worldwide, wind turbine manufacturers are continuing to develop a range of configurations with different combinations of pitch control, rotor speeds, gearboxes, generators and converters. This paper categorizes the main designs,...

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Multi-criteria model to support the definition of opportunistic maintenance policy: A study in a cogeneration system

Cavalcante, Cristiano A.V.; Lopes, Rodrigo S. - In: Energy 80 (2015) C, pp. 32-40

This article discusses the policy of opportunistic maintenance, considering more than one decision criterion by using a multi-attribute value function, for a study developed for a cogeneration system that uses sugarcane bagasse at a power plant in northeastern Brazil, where policy defines what...

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Knowledge reuse integrating the collaboration from experts in industrial maintenance management

Ruiz, Paula Andrea Potes; Foguem, Bernard Kamsu; Noyes, … - HAL - 2013

Distributed environments, technological evolution, outsourcing market and information technology (IT) are factors that considerably influence current and future industrial maintenance management. Repairing and maintaining the plants and installations requires a better and more sophisticated...

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Maintenance management for effective operations management at Matimba Power Station / Oufa Ernest Mutloane.

Mutloane, Oufa Ernest - 2009

operates. Matimba Power Station has consistently shown improvement in the areas of plant, financial and operations performance … performance. Asset management (through maintenance and management thereof), especially preventative management with in a power …

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Maintaining ERP packaged software : a revelatory case study

Ng, Celeste See-Pui; Gable, Guy G. - 2009

For many organizations, maintaining and upgrading enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems (large packaged application software) is often far more costly than the initial implementation. Systematic planning and knowledge of the fundamental maintenance processes and maintenance-related...

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Hybrid multimode resource-constrained maintenance project scheduling problem

Kosztyán, Zsolt T.; Pribojszki-Németh, Anikó; … - In: Operations Research Perspectives 6 (2019), pp. 1-13

Organizing maintenance tasks is a specific and important field of project and production management. Well-planned, properly scheduled, and effectively communicated maintenance tasks result in the accomplishment of more work that is performed more efficiently at a lower cost. In maintenance and...

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