This paper highlights the importance of maintenance techniques in the coming industrial
revolution, reviews the evolution of maintenance techniques, and presents a comprehensive …

Abstract Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS–aka drones) have evolved over the past decade
as both advanced military technology and off-the-shelf consumer devices. There is a gradual …

Condition-based maintenance (CBM) is a maintenance strategy that collects and assesses
real-time information, and recommends maintenance decisions based on the current …

Prognostics and health management (PHM) is a framework that offers comprehensive yet
individualized solutions for managing system health. In recent years, PHM has emerged as …

The increasing competition among industries has leveraged the emergence of various tools
and methods for maintenance decision-making support. This paper identifies in literature the …

Manufacturing firms face great pressure to reduce downtime as well as maintenance costs.
Condition-based maintenance (CBM) can be used to effectively manage operations and …

Industrial plant maintenance is an area which has enormous potential to be improved. It is
also an area attracted significant attention from mathematical modellers because of the …

The major goal of maintenance decision-making for electrical distribution systems (EDS) is
to find maintenance policy with minimum costs, and this has been the top priority …

This article evaluates 186 papers, published between 1978 and 2013 in 16 representative
scientific journals, related to maintenance and reliability problems that were tackled from a …

Aircraft maintenance design aims to identify strategies that render the aircraft reliable for
flight in a cost-efficient manner. These are often conflicting objectives. Moreover, existing …