The use of maintenance indicators to evaluate the effects of maintenance programs on NPP performance and safety

Maintenance strategy selection in electric power distribution systems

“…Opportunity-based maintenance consists of using a stoppage caused by failure of a component, to carry out activities of preventive maintenance in other components which are working normally (Pintelon and Gelders, 1992). Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM) is a systematic methodology which identifies the function of the equipment and its failure modes, and finds the appropriate allocation of efficient predictive and preventive maintenance activities to avoid the causes of failure, providing a satisfactory level of availability and costs by reducing corrective maintenance (Martorell et al, 1999). Risk-based maintenance analyses the failure modes, determines the risk associated with these failure modes and develop a maintenance strategy which minimizes the occurrence of those that show a greater risk (Arunraj and Maiti, 2007).…”

Development and application of equipment maintenance and safety integrity management system

“…Warburton, Strutt, and Allsop (1998) presented a methodology for predicting characteristics of mechanical-failures. Martorell et al (1999) researched the utilization of maintenance indicators that can evaluate the performance of NPP and the effectiveness of maintenance programs. No matter which method is selected for maintenance decision-making, reliability prediction, risk evaluation and historical failure data is necessary, while the lack of adequate reliability data and maintenance data may lead to the difficulty in failure prediction and failure prevention using probability analysis, Weibull plot, Monte Carlo simulation, Markov models, root cause analysis and other reliability models that heavily depend on probabilistic methods.…”

“…An approach for the integration of RAMS and risk analysis is developed as a guide in maintenance policies to reduce the frequency of failures and maintenance costs (Eti et al, 2006). Well-informed decisions, based on the sound reliability engineering principle, have been used in industrial application of RAM modeling (Herder, van Luijk, & Bruijnooge, 2008) and the maintenance indicators have been used to evaluate the effects of maintenance programs on performance and safety (Martorell, Sanchez, & Munoz, 1999). RIMAP methodology provides a guideline for making riskbased decisions for maintenance and inspection planning, which concentrates inspection activities on the key component which bring increased safety and availability (Jovanovic, 2004).…”

Asymmetries in the Maintenance Performance of Spanish Industries before and after the Recession

“…This has brought about increasing concern over the performance maintenance measurement [5], as shown by the abundant literature that analyses the matter (see [6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17]). …”