Study of the Possibilities of Improving Maintenance of Technological Equipment Subject to Wear

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

The manuscript presents the Reliability Centered Maintenance method (RCM) to analyze the components of KSW-460NE shearer machine in case of its failure.

 

·      The authors need to modify the abstract to mention what are the results of their study and how they effective?

·      Introduction has several smaller paragraphs and authors can merge the paragraphs of same idea. They need to clearly mention the research goal.

·      The organization of Section 2 is a bit off. For better readability, authors need to present their methodology before they present the materials used for execution of the methodology.

·      I would like to see related work section to know the existing techniques in the literature.

·      Tables #3,6,7, 8 are hard to read. They are deviating the attention from reading the paper.

·      The discussion section is so tiny. What are the limitations of the study?

 

Authors should rework on the organization of the manuscript.

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Reviewer 2 Report

1.Only the necessary spare parts for the three items have been analyzed, which is inadequate scholarship and innovation. Please specify how the proposed "reliability centered maintenance method (RCM)" is applied in the simulations. Moreover, what is the basis of “80% maintainability” or “80% reliability”? What is the basis for "79.9%" in Figure 8 and "78.4%" in Figure 9?

2. Where does the data in Table 5 come from? 

3.The meaning of C2 in Section 2.4 already exists in Formula (5), please delete it.

 

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Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

The authors have addressed almost all the issues from my comments in the review. However, the introduction still has several smaller paragraphs, and authors can merge the paragraphs of the same idea. Overall, the authors must proofread the article from the reader's perspective. Improve the transition between paragraphs or sections. The presentation of the Tables and Figures is chaotic! Authors should organize their results and present them effectively with proper explanations. 

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Reviewer 2 Report

The respectable authors fully have responded to my suggestions. Now I have no further comments

Author Response

On behalf of the authors, we thank you very much for your positive and constructive comments and suggestions on our manuscript