Spare parts are held to reduce the consequences of equipment downtime, playing an
important role in achieving the desired equipment availability at a minimum economic cost …

We are concerned with the interaction and integration between demand forecasting and
inventory control, in the context of supply chain operations. The majority of the literature is …

Purpose Spare Parts Management (SPM) and Industry 4.0 has proven their importance.
However, employment of Industry 4.0 solutions for SPM is at emerging stage. To address the …

The purpose of research is to increase the ore mass extraction ratio hen mining rich iron
ores by changing the shape of the stope chamber, as well as to substantiate its stable …

Authors have attempted to create coherent chapters and sections on how the fundamentals
of maintenance cost should be organized, to present them in a logical and sequential order …

The classical spare part demand forecasting literature studies methods for forecasting
intermittent demand. However, the majority of these methods do not consider the underlying …

The number of spare parts required for an item can be effectively estimated based on its
reliability performance. The reliability characteristics of an item are influenced by different …

With the emergence of Industry 5.0 and an increasing focus on human-centric approaches in
manufacturing, the analysis of workers in production systems has gathered significant …

Traditional parametric methods for assessing maintainability most often only consider time to
repair (TTR) as a single explanatory variable. However, to predict availability more precisely …

In industries characterized by heavy utilization of equipment and machinery, such as mining,
oil & gas, utilities, transportation, adequate stockholding of critical spare parts becomes …