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Maintenance Online : Maintenance & Asset Management Journal : ABSTRACTS : VOLUME 13, NUMBER 2, MAY 1998
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Vol 13, No 2, Facilities Management - How can Municipal Facilities be run at a Profit and Maintained? - Prof. Werner Tschuschke, Klaus Oesterdiekhoff, Sabine Overkamp, Institute of Maintenance Engineering (IFIN), Iserlohn, Germany
Communal facilities must be properly maintained but, with todays tight constraints on public funding, must also be run at a profit. In co-operation with eleven German municipalities, the Institute of Maintenance Engineering (IFIN) has developed a set of approaches for coping with this problem.
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Vol 13, No 2, MSC in MTCE - Why Were Studying Maintenance - John Harris, Technical Editor, Maintenance and Asset Management
A group of working engineers, just embarked on a part-time MSc programme in Maintenance Engineering, tell all to John Harris.
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Vol 13, No 2, Reliability of Quality Impact of an Emerging Empirical Model on Asset Management - Krishna Kumar, School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Central England in Birmingham
In the past four decades much has been done to highlight the importance of customers, those most critical of assets is the customer-supplier chain. It is now globally accepted that satisfying their needs and requirements is going to become more important than ever before. Up till now, achieving this has been separately approached from the perspectives of either quality, reliability, maintainability or availability, i.e. from four different aspects. It is proposed, however, that it would be more prudent to look at it from the point of view of asset management, which includes consideration of human resources. Asset Management can be viewed as ensuring the reliability of maintenance management and in this we are interested in the long-term effect of maintenance. Maintenance is closely coupled with the concept of life cycle cost, which in turn is determined by the quality and reliability of assets, as well as by capital cost. This paper puts forward the concept of Reliability of Quality (ROQ) and outlines a model of it which is based on the fundamental principles of reliability and cost of quality. The proposed model is being developed but it is suggested that its application could have a significant effect on maintenance planning and asset management.
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Vol 13, No 2, MACRO Maintenance Strategy - The MACRO View - John Woodhouse, Managing Director, The Woodhouse Partnership Ltd, and Eureka MAINE MACRO Project Manager
The International Eureka MAINE MACRO project has been busily collating the experiences of collaborating organisations in many industries. In addition to the development of innovative technical methods, MACRO is generating procedural guidance and training programmes to implement risk-based management techniques. High among these are the procedure guidance notes for the reviewing or setting maintenance strategy. Of course the subject has received a lot of exposure over the last few years mostly focusing on particular initiatives such as RCM, TPM, or other acronym-packaged frameworks. At the academic end of the spectrum, there have been special studies of RAMÔ (Reliability, Availability and Maintainability) interactions, but generally far removed from the front line of decision making by busy engineers. The following paper is a summary of the MACRO project observations and recommendations regarding best practice and the use of various tools (such as Function & Criticality Analysis, FMEA, RCM and optimisation methods). It will be followed in subsequent editions of this journal, by more specific discussion of component topics, with illustrations from the field-testing programme that forms part of the MACRO workscope.
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Maintenance Online : Maintenance & Asset Management Journal : ABSTRACTS : VOLUME 13, NUMBER 2, MAY 1998
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