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Showing 1 to 20 of 73 for “"Maintenance Activities"”.
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SCHEDULING OF PAVEMENT MAINTENANCE ACTIVITIES
… study is on the optimal scheduling of pavement maintenance activities to reduce traffic delays at the network level using genetic algorithms. This thesis develops a new method of pavement maintenance scheduling at the road network level. Pavement maintenance management involves the coordination …
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Managing preventative maintenance activities at Intel Corporation
… focused on evaluating and managing preventative maintenance activities to improve WIP (Work in Progress) management and cycle time. Equipment runs a factory, but effective maintenance of that equipment is often overlooked for improvement efforts due to constrained technical resources. However, …
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Optimally funding Army Installation repair and maintenance activities
… to over 200 Army installations for Repair and Maintenance Activities (RPMA). However, this allocation and those of the recent past have historically covered only 40 to 70 percent of total requirements. In response, ACSIM developed an efficient and defensible management paradigm called …
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Optimal planning of maintenance activities in education buildings
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2024-12-01
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Scheduling of track inspection and maintenance activities in railroad networks
… billions of dollars every year on railroad track maintenance in order to ensure safety and operational efficiency of their railroad networks. Besides maintenance costs, other costs such as train accident costs, train and shipment delay costs and rolling stock maintenance costs are also closely …
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Predictive analytics for maintenance activities in nuclear power plants: a feasibility study
… and processes. As plants age, the amount of maintenance increases while resources remain finite, leading to unwanted delays, affecting the health of assets and increasing costs. To aid in the modernization and digitization of nuclear power plants, this work explores data driven methods, …
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Application of statistical techniques in assisting maintenance activities at the Neal South Fossil Power Plant
The objective of the research was to assist the maintenance activities at the Neal South Fossil Power Plant. The plant engineers had the task of maintaining mammoth number of equipments that tended to fail at random. This created enormous problems in keeping the plant up and running. The sheer …
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Collective resource mobilisation for economic survival within the Turkish speaking communities in London
… generate insights into the business start-up and maintenance activities of Kurdish and Turkish business owners in catering and retail sectors in North London by utilizing a new theoretical approach influenced by Charles Tilly’s (1978) collective resource mobilisation theory. The research …
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A Windows-based roadway maintenance management system
A Maintenance Management System (MMS), as the name suggests, is a system used to manage maintenance activities on any infrastructure system or facility such as a road network. Maintenance of a road network involves repair, construction and improvement of pavements and the right of way elements that …
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Maintenance improvement in the petrochemical industry
… of breakdown or shut down which always require maintenance. Shutdown, many a times, may be planned (annual, quarterly, condition-based, time-based, preventive and so on) or unplanned (run-to-failure). In any case, maintenance personnel (mechanical, electrical and instrument) must perform their …
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Lean manufacturing in a semiconductor environment : use of variation analysis to focus continuous improvement efforts
… Autonomous Manufacturing (AM), Planned Maintenance (PM), and Waste Elimination (WE). Autonomous Manufacturing focuses on refurbishing manufacturing tools to new or better condition, up-skilling manufacturing technicians, and differentiating abnormal from normal operating conditions. It …
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An investigation into the need and implementation of Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) in Libyan cement industry
… a wide spectrum to implement Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) as a tool for improving productivity and system’s output. Some Libyan companies are still facing many problems concerning maintenance activities of assets. Inadequate maintenance can have cost impact on the maintenance performance …
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Maintenance optimisation for wind turbines.
… industry is developed. The model divulges that maintenance is indispensable to the core business objectives of the wind industry. However, the common maintenance strategies applied to wind turbines are inadequate to support the current commercial drivers of the wind industry. Consequently, a …
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Applying software maintenance metrics in the object oriented software development life cylce
… that various metrics are useful indicators of maintenance effort in the procedural paradigm. However, software complexity metrics have rarely been studied in the object oriented paradigm. Very few complexity metrics have been proposed to measure object oriented systems, and the proposed ones …
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A Reliability and Survivability Analysis of US Local Telecommunication Switches that Experience Frequent Outages
… switches. Major findings are that scheduled maintenance activities and hardware failures are the major causes of outages in local telecommunication switches; there are significant reliability and survivability decreases in more frequently failing switches; and there are considerable …
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Predicting maintainability with software quality metrics
Maintenance of software makes up a large fraction of the time and money spent in the software life cycle. By reducing the need for maintenance these costs can also be reduced. Predicting where maintenance is likely to occur can, help to reduce maintenance by prevention. This thesis details a study …
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Multidisciplinary spacesuit modeling and optimization : requirement changes and recommendations for the next-generation spacesuit design
… space-based infrastructure, and perform maintenance activities. The spacesuit is the primary piece of enabling hardware for spacewalks. Given that the United States is embarking on an ambitious mission to return to the Moon and eventually travel to Mars (as mandated by the U.S. Vision for …
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Estimating Post-Construction Costs of a Changing Urban Stormwater Program
… control practices must be maintained over time. Maintenance costs of these facilities, however, are poorly understood. A case study of five municipalities around the United States is used to estimate inspection and enforcement costs for each case site. Maintenance activities and costs were …
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A study of rural highway maintenance expenditures in Virginia: forecasting and policy testing
… to determine the financial adequacy for highway maintenance in Virginia during the period from the year 1981 to 1990. Future highway maintenance expenses were projected using regression analysis and hypothesized to be a function of travel. The forecasts of maintenance expenditures were performed …
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An ontological approach to model software quality assurance knowledge domain
… important objectives of software development and maintenance activities and as a result within an area of Software Engineering (SE) there are developed standards related to the SQA. Despite the effort made to improve consistency and coherency among standards, still there is no single standard …
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