Conventionally there is a strong relation between manufacturing and services in complex
engineering industries. For companies which aim to last in the competitive manufacturing …

This article evaluates 186 papers, published between 1978 and 2013 in 16 representative
scientific journals, related to maintenance and reliability problems that were tackled from a …

This paper proposes the Flexible and Interactive Tradeoff (FITradeoff) method, for eliciting
scaling constants or weights of criteria. The FITradeoff uses partial information about …

Inventory constraints, costs of lost production, safety and environmental objectives,
strategies of maintenance adopted, logistics aspects of spare parts are some of the criteria …

An outsourcing contract problem has been analyzed. This is a typical problem when dealing
with outsourcing vendor selection. For each alternative of an outsourcing contract there is an …

This paper proposes a multicriteria model for assessing risk in natural gas pipelines, and for
classifying sections of pipeline into risk categories. The model integrates Utility Theory and …

Reasonably accurate remaining-useful-life (RUL) predictions allow for the introduction of
maintenance policies where resources, such as spare parts and personnel, are only …

In recent decades, several mathematical methods have been developed for selecting the
most preferable alternatives. Among them, the MCDM (Multiple Criteria Decision Making) …

In periodic monitoring, the main problem is determining the inspection interval of condition
monitoring. For this problem, the decision variable is represented by the time of next …

Abstract Accepted by: M. Zied Babai It is natural to coordinate spare-parts inventory planning
and maintenance. However, work in the former area often neglects part utilization, and work …