Optimizing preventive maintenance policy: A data-driven application for a light rail braking system

This article presents a case study determining the optimal preventive maintenance policy for a light rail rolling stock system in terms of reliability, availability, and maintenance costs. The maintenance policy defines one of the three predefined preventive maintenance actions at fixed time-based intervals for each of the subsystems of the...

Optimizing the maintenance policy for light rail rolling stock at HTM

This thesis describes a method to find the best maintenance policy for a light rail rolling stock system based on reliability, availability, and maintenance cost. The objective of this maintenance policy is to maintain a minimum required level of system reliability at minimum maintenance cost and maximum availability. The maintenance policy...

RAMSSHEEP analysis: A tool for risk-driven maintenance. Applied for primary flood defence systems in the Netherlands

Introduction Floods are a threat to millions of people who live in lowlands like the Netherlands. Therefore the Dutch government has been given re-quirements for primary flood defence systems like dikes. The current condition of most of these dikes does not fulfill to these requirements based on flood risk analyses of RWS. The most logical step...

Implementing reliability, availability, maintainability and supportability RAMS for the MRO industry: A case study at European Airlines