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Cost drivers of integrated maintenance in high-value systems

  • Paul Baguley
    ,
  • Essam Shehab
    ,
  • Leigh Kirkwood
    ,
  • P. Amorim-Melo
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Abstract

High value systems are determined by a wide structure, where operations are considered to be one structural component. Nowadays “downtime” as a major impact in the operation costs of any system. To avoid or minimize “down-time” it is essential to match the appropriate maintenance to each failure. Therefore, it is relevant to determine the cost drivers of integrated maintenance in any system, in order to minimize the overall cost. It is common to use Value Driven Maintenance (VDM) to capture the cost drivers in maintenance. VDM is a methodology which relies in four distinct areas: Asset Utilization; Resource Allocation; Control Cost and Health and Safety and Environment. Within each category it is possible to allocate different cost drivers, building a framework for each system studied. The aim of this paper is to categorize the cost drivers of rail infrastructure networks, associating them with the maintenance preformed for each case. Furthermore, analysis of which part of the track falls under each VDM category as well as the general failure causes and effects will be included in the framework presented. Finally relating the maintenance type for each effect will provide the necessary inputs towards a cost model structure. The benefit of achieving a successful model will be the optimization of the cost in integrated maintenance of the rail infrastructure.

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Output type

Research Output: Contribution to journal Article Peer-review

Original language

English

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 152-156

Journal (Volume, Issue Number)

Procedia CIRP (Volume 22)

Publication milestones

  • Accepted/In press - 08/08/2014
  • Published - 31/10/2014

Publication status

Published - 31/10/2014

ISSN

2212-8271

External Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/623957
  • Scopus: 84938908493

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