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Spare parts recommendation for corrective maintenance of capital goods considering demand dependency

Dursun, I. (author), Grishina, Anastasiia (author), Akcay, Alp (author), van Houtum, Geert Jan (author)

We consider a maintenance service provider that services geographically dispersed customers with its local service engineers. Traditionally, when a system failure is reported, a service engineer makes a diagnostic visit to the customer's location to perform corrective maintenance. If spare parts are required, they are ordered and a second...

journal article 2024

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Maintenance commitments: Conception, semantics, and coherence

Telang, Pankaj R. (author), Singh, Munindar P. (author), Yorke-Smith, N. (author)

Social commitments are recognized as an abstraction that enables flexible coordination between autonomous agents. We make these contributions. First, we introduce and formalize a concept of a maintenance commitment, a kind of social commitment characterized by a maintenance condition whose truthhood an agent commits to maintain. This concept...

journal article 2023

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Risk-based maintenance and inspection of riverine flood defence systems

Klerk, W.J. (author), van Bergeijk, Vera (author), Kanning, W. (author), Wolfert, A.R.M. (author), Kok, M. (author)

The condition of flood defence revetments is influenced by many different degradation processes such as animal burrowing, rutting and growth of weeds. Many of these processes are shock-based rather than progressive continuous. As shocks can cause a drop in performance, this means that the condition of a revetment can suddenly decrease,...

journal article 2023

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Increasing the effectiveness of the capacity usage at rolling stock service locations

van Hövell, Madeleine E.M.A. (author), Goverde, R.M.P. (author), Bešinović, Nikola (author), de Weerdt, M.M. (author)

Trains consist of one or more railway vehicles called rolling stock, which need interior and exterior cleaning and small technical checks on a daily basis. These services are executed at service locations (SLs). Scheduling rolling stock servicing tasks during an operational day is important to guarantee the fulfilment of servicing deadlines....

journal article 2022

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Resilience-based approach to maintenance asset and operational cost planning

Sun, Hao (author), Yang, M. (author), Wang, Haiqing (author)

Reliability-based and risk-based methods for directing maintenance activities play a critical role in ensuring system safety and reducing unnecessary downtime. Those methods focus on preventive maintenance to avoid component failures and are applicable before unexpected disruptions occur. However, when disruptions are unavoidable, more attention...

journal article 2022

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Revisiting the debate: Are code metrics useful for measuring maintenance effort?

Chowdhury, Shaiful (author), Holmes, Reid (author), Zaidman, A.E. (author), Kazman, Rick (author)

Evaluating and predicting software maintenance effort using source code metrics is one of the holy grails of software engineering. Unfortunately, previous research has provided contradictory evidence in this regard. The debate is still open: as a community we are not certain about the relationship between code metrics and maintenance impact....

journal article 2022

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Airline maintenance task rescheduling in a disruptive environment

van Kessel, Paul J. (author), Freeman, Floris C. (author), Santos, Bruno F. (author)

Airline maintenance task scheduling takes place in a disruptive environment. The stochastic arrival of corrective maintenance tasks and changes in both fleet and resource availability require schedules to be continuously adjusted. An optimal schedule ensures that all tasks are executed before their due date in both an efficient (at minimum...

journal article 2022

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Scheduling multimodal alternative services for managing infrastructure maintenance possessions in railway networks

Trepat Borecka, Jacob (author), Bešinović, Nikola (author)

Highly utilized railway networks require regular infrastructure maintenance. Different track sections often need to be closed for entire days to carry out engineering works, which makes the regular timetables no longer feasible and thus adjusted railway services and temporary alternative services need to be planned. We introduce the...

journal article 2021

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The Maintenance Location Choice Problem for railway rolling stock

Zomer, Jordi (author), Bešinović, Nikola (author), de Weerdt, M.M. (author), Goverde, R.M.P. (author)

Due to increasing railway use, the capacity at railway yards and maintenance locations is becoming limiting to accommodate existing rolling stock. To reduce capacity issues at maintenance locations during nighttime, railway undertakings consider performing more daytime maintenance, but the choice at which locations personnel needs to be...

journal article 2021

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Measuring consumers’ product care tendency: Scale development and validation

Ackermann, L. (author), Schoormans, J.P.L. (author), Mugge, R. (author)

Product care is defined as all activities initiated by consumers that encourage an extension of product lifetimes, such as repair, maintenance, and/or careful handling. A product care scale was developed and validated in a set of four related studies. In study 1, we asked experts to examine the face validity of a set of 35 items. In study 2,...

journal article 2021

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Multi-system intervention optimization for interdependent infrastructure

Kammouh, O. (author), Nogal Macho, M. (author), Binnekamp, R. (author), Wolfert, A.R.M. (author)

The wellbeing of modern societies is dependent upon the functioning of their infrastructure networks. This paper introduces the 3C concept, an integrative multi-system and multi-stakeholder optimization approach for managing infrastructure interventions (e.g., maintenance, renovation, etc.). The proposed approach takes advantage of the...

journal article 2021

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Infrastructure maintenance and replacement optimization under multiple uncertainties and managerial flexibility

van den Boomen, M. (author), Spaan, M.T.J. (author), Shang, Y. (author), Wolfert, A.R.M. (author)

Infrastructure maintenance and replacement decisions are subject to uncertainties such as regular asset degradation, structural failure, and price uncertainty. In the engineering domain, Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) typically focus on uncertainties regarding asset degradation and structural failure. While the literature in the engineering...

journal article 2020

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Automated wind turbine maintenance scheduling

Yürüşen, Nurseda Y. (author), Rowley, Paul N. (author), Watson, S.J. (author), Melero, Julio J. (author)

While many operation and maintenance (O&M) decision support systems (DSS) have been already proposed, a serious research need still exists for wind farm O&M scheduling. O&M planning is a challenging task, as maintenance teams must follow specific procedures when performing their service, which requires working at height in adverse...

journal article 2020

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Understanding Housing Management by Low-income Homeowners: Technical, Organisational and Sociocultural Challenges in Chilean Condominium Housing

Vergara d'Alençon, L.M. (author), Gruis, V.H. (author), van der Flier, C.L. (author)

In the context of social vulnerability, the house is an important social and economic resource to cope with poverty. However, low-income homeowners face constraints to maintain their houses, negatively affecting the quality of their dwellings, buildings and neighbourhoods. In the case of Chile, current studies have shown high levels of...

journal article 2019

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Comparing Human Factors for Augmented Reality Supported Single-User and Collaborative Repair Operations of Industrial Robots

Aschenbrenner, D. (author), Leutert, Florian (author), Çençen, A. (author), Verlinden, J.C. (author), Schilling, Klaus (author), Latoschik, Marc (author), Lukosch, S.G. (author)

In order to support the decision-making process of industry on how to implement Augmented Reality (AR) in production, this article wants to provide guidance through a set of comparative user studies. The results are obtained from the feedback of 160 participants who performed the same repair task on a switch cabinet of an industrial robot....

journal article 2019

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Barriers to availability of surgical equipment in Kenya

Oosting, R.M. (author), Wauben, L.S.G.L. (author), Mwaura, Salome W. (author), Madete, J.K. (author), Groen, Reinou S. (author), Dankelman, J. (author)

Background & Objective: The need for surgery is currently not met in Sub-Saharan Africa, requiring both extra workforce and surgical equipment. Currently, there is a gap in the availability of surgical equipment which, among others, limits the provision of safe surgery. To design strategies to increase availability, the use of surgical...

journal article 2019

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Optimization models for high-speed train unit routing problems

Wang, Ying (author), Gao, Yuan (author), Yu, Xiaoyuan (author), Hansen, I.A. (author), Miao, Jianrui (author)

Train unit routing problem determines the number of train units needed to carry out involved trips, which is a significant part of railway operation cost. In this paper, we focus on high-speed train unit routing problems, in which maintenance resource constraints both on time and distance are taken into account. Based on a connection network,...

journal article 2019

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Pareto-based maintenance decisions for regional railways with uncertain weld conditions using the Hilbert spectrum of axle box acceleration

Nunez, Alfredo (author), Jamshidi, A. (author), Wang, H. (author)

This paper presents a Pareto-based maintenance decision system for rail welds in a regional railway network. Weld health condition data are collected using a train in operation. A Hilbert spectrum-based approach is used for data processing to detect and assess the weld quality based on multiple registered dynamic responses in the axle box...

journal article 2018

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Equipment for essential surgical care in 9 countries across Africa: availability, barriers and need for novel design

Oosting, R.M. (author), Wauben, L.S.G.L. (author), Groen, R.S. (author), Dankelman, J. (author)

Shortages of medical equipment in low-and-middle income countries (LMICs) have been found by several previous studies that assessed surgical capacity. To increase surgical capacity, there is a need to identify the availability of specific types of surgical equipment on a local, regional and national level. A survey was conducted among surgeons...

journal article 2018

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Solving large-scale train timetable adjustment problems under infrastructure maintenance possessions

Van Aken, Sander (author), Bešinović, Nikola (author), Goverde, R.M.P. (author)

During infrastructure maintenance possessions, commonly not all trains can operate, and the original timetable may have to be adjusted accordingly. To deliver the best service to passengers, operators have to coordinate adjustment measures dealing with multiple possessions at the network level. In this paper, we consider the Train Timetable...

journal article 2017