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Maintenance and Reliability Engineering

A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Applied Industrial Technologies".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 January 2025 | Viewed by 626

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Institute of Innovation, Science and Sustainability, Federation University Australia, Churchill, VIC 3842, Australia
Interests: asset management; reliability; availability; maintainability; safety and continual improvement

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Dear Colleagues,

Maintenance and Reliability Engineering are extremely important for best practice asset management for reducing cost and risks and further enhancing performance. This special issue will cover issues and challenges and how address those using systems, standards, data analysis, modelling and risk informed decision making.

Dr. Gopinath Chattopadhyay
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Keywords

  • maintenance
  • reliability analysis
  • reliability assessment

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18 pages, 1314 KiB  
Article
Stochastic Analysis of an Industrial System with Preparation Time Repair under Warranty Policy
by Zienab M. Hussien and Mohamed S. El-Sherbeny
Appl. Sci. 2024, 14(17), 7494; https://doi.org/10.3390/app14177494 - 24 Aug 2024
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The main purpose of this study is to examine the behavior of certain industrial systems under the conditions of product warranty policy. Given this policy, we are interested in considering all the parameters of the system in order to study them and show [...] Read more.
The main purpose of this study is to examine the behavior of certain industrial systems under the conditions of product warranty policy. Given this policy, we are interested in considering all the parameters of the system in order to study them and show their impact on the proposed system. In order to increase the efficiency of the system and activate the product warranty policy, the system will undergo a preliminary examination for any system failure occurrence to determine the reasons that led to the failure. After completing the initial inspection, the mechanic will decide whether it is a user-caused failure or a manufacturing defect to determine whether or not the repair of the broken appliance is covered by the manufacturer’s contractual warranty policy. All times in the system are assumed as a negative exponential distribution. The expressions for some measures of system effectiveness such as reliability, mean time to system failure (MTSF), and availability are derived using the supplementary variable technique and Laplace transform. Sensitivity analysis and a relative sensitivity are then carried out in order to recognize how each system parameter affects performance measures. Finally, some numerical examples are designed and performed to show how the change of each system parameter affects system performance. Full article
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