This article gives an overview of the literature on asset management for multi-unit systems
with an emphasis on two multi-asset categories: fleet (a system of homogeneous assets) …

Maintenance and service logistics support are required to ensure high availability and
reliability for capital goods and typically represent a significant part of operating costs in …

For safety reasons, a high-speed train needs to carry out the preventive maintenance when
its accumulated running mileage or time reaches a predefined threshold. This paper …

This paper takes up age and periodic replacement last models with working cycles, where
the unit is replaced before failure at a total operating time T or at a random working cycle Y …

Over the last decade, there has been a rapid growth of the use of genetic algorithms in the
various areas of production and operations management. This paper provides a review of …

Scheduling plays a vital role in ensuring the effectiveness of the production control of a
flexible manufacturing system (FMS). The scheduling problem in FMS is considered to be …

Compared to conventional marine systems, where the onboard crew can perform frequent
and flexible maintenance, autonomous marine systems (AMS) only involve a limited (or …

Predictive maintenance is one of the maintenance policies which is revolutionising the
industry, due to the increase in security, quality and availability which is on offer to an …

Adaptive genetic algorithms (GAs) have been shown to be able to improve GA performance
in reliability-related optimization studies. However, there are different ways to implement …

Condition-based monitoring is used as part of predictive maintenance to collect real-time
information on the healthy status of a vessel engine, which allows for a more accurate …