The objective function is a systematic accounting of costs which include the number, operation, and maintenance of the design elements (decision variables) and account for the changes in the modeled system (state variables) response from the candidate design.
In addition to that, requirements for undelayed time schedules, safer operation and low maintenance influence the design of the main propulsion and generation-distribution system.
Walking and participating in activities outdoors in old age can be restricted both by the physical capacity of the individual and by the maintenance and/or the design of the outdoor environment.
To mitigate the risk for late design failures, participatory design groups implementing Web 2.0 systems based on the pattern language have to include software engineering competences to cover areas such as system extensions and maintenance, and the design groups have to accept full responsibility for decisions made in these areas.
Health monitoring technologies, which can evaluate the performance degradation, load history and degree of fatigue, have the potential to improve the effective maintenance, the reliability design method and the availability in the improper use conditions of electronic equipment.
Because plants usually have a very long period of operation and maintenance, the plant design data need to be presented in a computer-interpretable form and to be independent of any commercial systems.
Compared to a model with single regressors for the maintenance phase (i.e., load 4 maintenance, load 5 maintenance, load 6 maintenance, and baseline maintenance), the present design helped to minimize correlations between the regressors of interest and the other predictors of the model.
Design for Maintenance is a method to optimize maintenance activities during the design process.
Maintenance analysis during the design, acquisition, and selection phase ensures that maintenance requirements are minimized in the future.
This research aims at developing an innovative framework for sophisticated maintenance scheduling over the design life for an array of floating breakwaters connected with hinges.
