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 …

The semiconductor industry has gone through significant changes in the last decade.
Competition has increased dramatically. Customers focus on product quality, product …

Purpose In the present context of globalization, maintenance of production systems is very
important. A lot of organizations are facing many problems in maintenance management …

Quality management, by means of total quality management (TQM), is considered to foster
organisational performance characterised by competitiveness and long‐term profitability …

In 2000, the European Union founded a project named 'RAIL: Reliability centered
maintenance approach for the infrastructure and logistics of railway operation'aimed to study …

Purpose–The purpose of this article is to critically evaluate maintenance strategies and
determine to what extent models from other sectors can be applied to building maintenance …

Acta Wexionensia no 33/2004. ISSN: 1404-4307, ISBN: 91-7636-401-1. Written in English.
This thesis describes the role of cost effective maintenance in achieving competitive …

Purpose–In present context of globalization, maintenance of production systems is very
important. Many of the organizations are facing a lot of problems in maintenance …

Nenhum estudo de implantação de programas de manutenção, em qualquer empresa,
pode ser devidamente efetuado sem se considerar os custos envolvidos. Eles são, na …

Energy efficiency program is used to reduce energy cost that leads to a reduction in
production or overhead cost. Energy saving can be obtained by application of energy …