An integrated approach for maintenance planning by considering human factors: Application to a petrochemical plant

2017 ◽  
Vol 109 ◽  
pp. 400-409 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Sheikhalishahi ◽  
L. Pintelon ◽  
A. Azadeh
Keyword(s):  
Human Factors ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Petrochemical Plant ◽  
Maintenance Planning

Human-Centered Reengineering: The Integration of Human Factors into Business Reengineering

1995 ◽  
Vol 39 (12) ◽  
pp. 854-858 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin L. Somberg ◽  
Mary Carol Day
Keyword(s):  
Human Factors ◽  
System Design ◽  
Work Environment ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Process Reengineering ◽  
Mutual Benefit ◽  
Work Process ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Bottom Up

Business reengineering is currently being employed by many companies to maintain and improve their effectiveness. However, 50% to 70% of all reengineering efforts fail to accomplish their objectives. Although business reengineering and human factors approaches to work process reengineering share many goals, their approaches differ in four significant ways: (1) a top-down vs. a bottom-up approach; (2) starting from scratch vs. learning from an analysis of strengths and weaknesses of the existing work environment, (3) relying mainly on data from management vs. data from workers at all levels, and (4) treating processes and systems independently without a view of the worker at the center vs. a worker-centered integrated approach to process and system design. An integration of human factors approaches into business reengineering can increase the success of reengineering efforts. Data from projects where human factors specialists worked on reengineering efforts illustrate the mutual benefit to both types of work that can be gained through collaboration.

An Integrated Approach to Maintenance Human Factors

1997 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerry P. Allen ◽  
William L. Rankin
Keyword(s):  
Human Factors ◽  
Integrated Approach

Toward an Integrated Approach of HV and MV Circuit-Breakers Optimization Maintenance Planning and Reliability Assessment: A Case Study

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 133-153
Author(s):  
Morad Mahmoudi ◽  
Abdellah El Barkany ◽  
Ahmed El Khalfi
Keyword(s):  
Preventive Maintenance ◽  
Distribution System ◽  
Optimal Schedule ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Condition Based Maintenance ◽  
Electrical Network ◽  
Maintenance Planning ◽  
Maintenance Policy ◽  
Medium Voltage ◽  
Electrical Distribution

This paper investigates technical and organizational tools to improve maintenance planning performances. Indeed, maintaining a high level of reliability and availability of a Medium Voltage electrical network protection system such as the Medium Voltage and High Voltage circuit-breaker and its numerical protection relay at a low operating expenses cost is one of the most critical and challenging tasks for MV electrical distribution network operators. This work has mainly two goals. Firstly, to propose an operating expenses budget function that evaluates the Planned Scheduled Preventive Maintenance Policy combined with a Condition-based maintenance fora real series-parallel multi-assets MV electrical distribution system with active redundancy under the reliability and the maintenance frequency visits of these components. Secondly, to implement an integrated genetic algorithm approach in order to look for the optimal perfect and planned preventive maintenance scheduling policy and condition-based maintenance that minimizes the maximum operating expenses cost of the entire system.The method determines the optimal schedule of preventive maintenance actions based on minimization both reliabilty and operating expenses costs. Conclusions and recommendations for practice are made on the basis of obtained results.

scholarly journals Incorporation of human factors into a Discrete Event Simulation Model for human centred assembly performance evaluation

2021 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 437-448
Author(s):  
M.I. Abubakar ◽  
Q. Wang
Keyword(s):  
Human Factors ◽  
Discrete Event Simulation ◽  
Manufacturing Systems ◽  
Human Performance ◽  
Manufacturing System ◽  
Discrete Event ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Design Stage ◽  
Early Design Stage ◽  
Event Simulation

Discrete Event Simulation (DES) tool is commonly used for the design, analysis, and evaluation of manufacturing systems. Human centred assembly systems offer better system flexibility and responsiveness due to inherent human intelligence and problem-solving abilities; human can deal with product variations and production volumes; and can always adapt themselves to multiple tasks after learning process. Nevertheless, human performance can be unpredictable, and may alter over time due to varying psychological and physiological states, these are often overlooked by researchers when designing, implementing, or evaluating a manufacturing system. In this paper a user-friendly integrated DES method was proposed to enable manufacturing system designers to investigate overall performance of human centred system considering effects of selected human factors. the method can permit manufacturing system designers to evaluate overall manufacturing system performance with considerations of parameters of human factors at early design stage. A case study was carried out using integrated approach; simulation results demonstrate the applicability of this approach.

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