Purpose–Maintenance and its management has moved from being considered a “necessary
evil” to being of strategic importance for most competitive organisations around the world. In …

Purpose Reliability centered maintenance (RCM) is a process used to determine activities to
be taken to ensure an asset continues to perform asset's function in asset's present …

This paper presents a 'Lexicographic'Goal Programming (LGP) approach to define the best
strategies for the maintenance of critical centrifugal pumps in an oil refinery. For each pump …

Reliability centered maintenance (RCM) is a well-established analysis method for
preventive maintenance planning. As its name indicates, reliability is the main point of …

Maintenance policy selection is a multiple criteria decision making. The criteria often
considered are cost and reliability of maintenance. There has been a growing interest in …

With about 100% increase in rail service usage over the last 20 years, it is pertinent that rail
infrastructure continues to function at an optimal level to avoid service disruptions …

Complex industrial systems adopt reliability centered maintenance (RCM) for maintenance
optimization to improve safety and reduce maintenance cost. Preserving function is the core …

Railway infrastructure maintenance plays a crucial role for rail transport. It aims at
guaranteeing safety of operations and availability of railway tracks and related equipment for …

Nowadays, efforts are being made by the railway industry for the application of reliability-
based and risk-informed approaches to maintenance optimisation of railway infrastructures …

Railway transport consists of two main asset classes of infrastructure and rolling stock. To
date, there has been a great deal of interest in the study and analysis of failure mechanisms …