System downtime and unplanned outages massively affect plant productivity; therefore, the
reliability, availability, maintainability, and safety (RAMS) disciplines, together with fault …

In increasingly complex production environments, tremendous efforts are being made to
optimize the efficiency of a production system. An important efficiency factor is industrial …

Managing maintenance within an economical short-termism framework, without considering
the consequential long-term cost effect, is very common in industry. This research presents a …

Purpose While the petroleum industry remains to be the main source of energy in the world,
it is responsible for a large amount of resource consumption, environmental emission and …

Reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) is a well-established method for preventive
maintenance planning. This paper focuses on the optimization of a maintenance plan for an …

Purpose This paper aims to develop a system dynamics (SD) model to identify causal
relationships among the elements of failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA), ie failure …

Los indicadores son elementos importantes para evaluar el desempeño de la gestión
empresarial en cualquier organización. En Cuba se ha establecido el indicador disposición …

After summarizing and evaluating works on system reliability, various models and results for
predicting and evaluating system reliability have been introduced. However, we have not …

This paper proposes a structured methodology for generating a Bayesian network (BN)
structure for an engineered system and investigates the impact of integrating engineering …

The introduction of Industry 4.0 is expected to revolutionize current maintenance practices
by reaching new levels of predictive (detection, diagnosis, and prognosis processes) and …