... and maintenance of medical devices has been investigated by employing the Support Vector Machine (SVM) tool. SVM with four kernel functions is used to forecast the timing of the next failure or repair request in the system for two different products and two different failure types, namely, random failure...

... reduce electricity generation expenditures while providing opportunities for manufacturers to decrease operating costs. Several studies on demand response for manufacturers have been conducted. However, there lacks a unified production model that balances production capability degradation, maintenance...

... globalization and government legislations for green manufacturing. To run a manufacturing line in an energy-efficient manner, an energy-oriented maintenance methodology is developed. At the machine layer, the multi-attribute model (MAM) method is extended by modeling the energy attribute. Preventive maintenance...

... service contract will be offered for the asset. A classic example being Rolls Royce power-by-the-hour aircraft engines. Service contracts offered by original equipment manufacturers have predominantly focused on maintenance and upkeep activities for a single asset. Interestingly enough, manufacturing...

...Dimitris Mourtzis; Aikaterini Vlachou; Vasilios Zogopoulos Maintenance and its cost continue, over the years, drawing the attention of production management, since the unplanned failures decrease the reliability of the system and the return of investments. Maintenance services of manufactured...

...Jing Zou; Jorge Arinez; Qing Chang; Yong Lei Energy efficiency improvement and timely preventive maintenance (PM) are critical in manufacturing industry due to the rising energy cost, environmental concerns, and increasing requirements on system reliability. By strategically turning appropriate...

..., 2015; final manuscript received August 25, 2015; published online October 27, 2015. Editor: Y. Lawrence Yao. 12 06 2015 25 08 2015 Materials handling Plant engineering Maintenance The rotating resistance of idler rolls in belt conveyor systems occurs due to the friction...

... of the equipment management layer to improve the control capacity of equipment operational status to reduce fault-based downtime of equipment to improve the capability of an equipment operator to deal with failure or fault of equipment to reduce equipment maintenance cost to improve the actual...

... considerations give cues for its application under an indirect wear estimate. Modeling and simulation Plant engineering Maintenance Tool life strongly affects the efficiency of machining operations. This question is largely studied by the so-called machining economics, where costs of machining...

...Merve Celen; Dragan Djurdjanovic 6 Once again, if such periods of time do not exist in a given FMS, then c cp = c p . 7 Multiple chambers as manufacturing stations, supported by a material handling system. 8 Regardless of the cheap/regular maintenance ratio...