ABSTRACT
Aluminum and steelmaking • Optimization of nitrogen compressor third-stage piston ring: con-
dition-based maintenance (CBM) model • Establishing the economic life of mobile equipment (floor sweepers,
forklift trucks, and General Motors Suburban) • Establishing lathe requirements in a steel mill
Electrical generation • Reactor coolant pump: CBM model • Optimizing CBM decisions on main rotating equipment using pro-
portional hazard model • Air preheater cleaning • Condition monitoring of hydrodyne seals in a nuclear plant • Maximizing power station reliability subject to a budgetary constraint
Electricity transmission and distribution • Optimal preventive replacement of electronic modules in 110-V DC
battery chargers • Optimal preventive replacement of unloader units in air compressors • Optimal preventive replacement of capacitor units in a capacitor
bank • Replacement of 400-kV lightning arrestors • Rightsizing of cable joining resources to meet a fluctuating work-
load, taking into account the subcontracting opportunities • Optimizing inspection frequency for an overhead line supervisory
information system • Optimizing inspection frequency for air compressor systems • Determining the number of cable oil vans to meet service demand • BP2 deionized water pump replacement • Serviceability life expectancy study of built-up roofs • HVDC valve damping equipment failures • Optimal replacement age of fast gas relays • Replacement of fault detector relays • Transformer repair vs. replace decision analysis • Optimal number of spare transformers • Economic life of 230-kV oil circuit breakers
Food-processing industries • Sugar refinery centrifuge component replacement • Condition monitoring of shear pump bearings in a canning plant • Establishing the economic refurbishment time for a seamer in a
canning plant Military (land, sea, and air)
• Oil analysis of marine diesel engines: optimizing condition-based maintenance decisions (U.K.)
• Optimizing condition-based maintenance decisions: an application to ship diesel engines (Canada)
• Aircraft fuel pump replacement policy • Condition monitoring of aircraft engines subject to oil analysis
Mining industry • Optimal inspection frequency for scissor lift vehicles • Components for preventive replacement of McLean bolters • Optimization of (100t loco) inspection frequency • Economic life analysis of loader • Optimizing availability of mill GIW discharge pumps • Optimizing availability of smelter converters • Establishing the economic life of a fleet of haul trucks • Steering clutch replacement of a dozer • Spares provisioning of electric motors on conveyor systems • Condition monitoring of engines and transmissions on haul trucks • Condition monitoring of electric wheel motors
• Condition monitoring of pump bearings in a coal plant • Shovel replacement in light of technological improvement • Repair vs. replacement for a wheel loader • Optimizing the number of vehicles in a haul truck fleet
Oil and gas • Economic life of a combustion engine • Cylinder head replacement • Compressor valve replacement • Pressure safety valve inspection interval • Optimizing number of spare 100-hp motors • CBM optimization of engine pumping unit • Maintenance crew optimization • Condition monitoring of oil well pumping system (casing, sucker
rod, and pump) Petrochemical industry
• Optimizing maintenance crew size and shift patterns Pharmaceutical industry
• Failure-finding interval for a compressor: parallel redundant system • Huber washer replacement policy • Work center resource optimization
Pulp and paper industry • Recovery soot blower component replacement strategy: lance tube
packing failures • Bark hog equipment failure analysis: establishing productive main-
tenance (PM) interval • Tissue machine tail cutter: drive belt replacement policy • Sawmill sawquip line: replacement policy for outfeed press roll
bearings • Establishing the economic life of a feller-buncher
Railway systems • Optimizing condition-based maintenance decisions to reduce in-
service failures of traction motor ball bearings Transportation
• Forklift truck replacement cycles • Transit bus fleet replacement policy • Establishing the economic life and optimal maintenance policy for
a fleet of trailers • Transit bus fleet inspection policy: A, B, C, and D class inspections • Establishing the economic life of a fleet of tractors
