Offers a check list of some environmental systems within a building that require preventive maintenance (PM), together with typical faults due to deterioration. Argues that a lack of PM will lead to expensive breakdown of capital equipment. Advises the use of a qualified contractor, registered...

In competitive market environments, businesses employ Just-In-Time (JIT) systems not only to reduce costs, but also to enhance their business partnerships. Although product quality level is essential for maintaining competitiveness, traditional inventory models do not consider defect rate, which...

The present research aims at predicting the required activities for preventive maintenance in terms of equipment optimal cost and reliability. The research sample includes all offshore drilling equipment of FATH 59 Derrick Site affiliated with National Iranian Drilling Company. Regarding the...

In today's global environment, technology is constantly evolving. Being able to stay up-to-date with the very latest technological advances can be extremely hard to accomplish. As a result of these changes and developments in technology, which often come unexpectedly, consumers are frequently...

Purpose: Remanufactured products, in addition to being environment friendly, are popular with consumers because they can offer the latest technology with lower prices in comparison to brand new products. However, some consumers are hesitant to buy remanufactured products because they are...

Purpose: We deal with the problem of the joint determination of optimal economic production quantity (EPQ) and optimal preventive maintenance (PM) for a system that can produce multiple products alternately. The objective is to find the optimal number of production cycles and the PM policy...

Purpose: The purpose of this work is to develop a mathematical model for simultaneously determining the optimal period of preventive maintenance actions and the optimal size of buffer stock for a production unit that is owned by a lessor and leased to a lessee under a lease contract....

Abstract This paper investigates a more general transient shared load k -out-of- n : G system subject to multiple failure modes and repair facilities, with overhauling service (preventive maintenance) of the system. Expressions for the reliability function, the failure density function and...