会议专题

Asset Maintenance Modelling: Is It a Useful Tool or Not?

Maintenance has been traditionally treated as the domain of engineers involving both engineering and management expertise. It is noted however, mat a large number of maintenance related research papers in various journals appeared to be written by academics who never done any maintenance work at all. There are numerous models and theories ranged from highly complicated mathematical developments impossible for a practitioner to understand to simple enough models which may not be considered as academically good enough. How many of these models are applicable, but also worth of academic merit? In this paper, two modelling techniques mainly developed at Salford will be reviewed and case studies introduced. The first one is the delay time modelling technique and the second is condition based residual life prediction. The mathematical developments involved are moderate but still beyond the scope of an ordinary engineer. For this reason prototype software developments were made to facilitate the use of these two techniques. To answer the question raised by the title of this paper, we say that modelling can be a useful tool in asset maintenance provided it addressed the real problems, was developed properly and rigorously validated.

maintenance delay time residual life case study

Wenbin Wang

Centre for OR and Applied Statistics, School of Accounting, Economics and Management Science,University of Salford, UK;Also at School of Management, Harbin Institute of Tech., China

国际会议

The First International Conference on Maintenance Engineering(首届维修工程国际学术会议)

成都

英文

55-64

2006-10-15(万方平台首次上网日期,不代表论文的发表时间)