The literature on maintenance models is surveyed. The focus is on work appearing since the 1965 survey "Maintenance Policies for Stochastically Failing Equipment: A Survey" by John McCall and the 1965 book", "The Mathematical Theory of Reliability", by Richard Barlow and Frank Proschan. The survey includes models which involve an optimal decision to procure, inspect, and repair and/or replace a unit subject to deterioration in service.

A survey of maintenance models: The control and surveillance of deteriorating systems

This paper is a state-of-the-art review of the literature related to optimal maintenance models of systems subject to failure. The emphasis is on work appearing since the 1976 survey, “A Survey of Maintenance Models: The Control and Surveillance of Deteriorating Systems,” by W.P. Pierskalla and J.A. Voelker, published in this journal.

Optimal maintenance models for systems subject to failure–A Review

The development of the information systems (IS) literature inManagement Science during the past 50 years reflects the inception, growth, and maturation of several different research streams. The five research streams we identify incorporate different definitions of the managerial problems that relate to IS, the alternate theoretical perspectives and different methodological paradigms to study them, and the levels of the organization at which their primary results impact managerial practice. Thedecision support and design science research stream studies the application of computers in decision support, control, and managerial decision making. Thevalue of information research stream reflects relationships established based on economic analysis of information as a commodity in the management of the firm. Thehuman-computer systems design research stream emphasizes the cognitive basis for effective systems design. TheIS organization and strategy research stream focuses the level of analysis on the locus of value of the IS investment instead of on the perceptions of a system or its user. Theeconomics of information systems and technology research stream emphasizes the application of theoretical perspectives and methods from analytical and empirical economics to managerial problems involving IS and information technologies (IT). Based on a discussion of these streams, we evaluate the IS literature's core contributions to theoretical and managerial knowledge, and make some predictions about the road that lies ahead for IS researchers.

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50th Anniversary Article: The Evolution of Research on Information Systems: A Fiftieth-Year Survey of the Literature in Management Science

How and to what extent practitioners use the scientific results of management studies is of great concern to management scholars and has given rise to a considerable body of literature. In this pap...

The Practical Relevance of Management Research: Turning the Debate on Relevance into a Rigorous Scientific Research Program

Reliability analysis : Optimal inspection and maintenance schedules of failing systems

An economic analysis is made of skip-lot sampling plans for both destructive and non-destructive testing. The purpose of this analysis is to find an optimal single sampling plan, to be characterized by n and c skip-lot parameters i and f, which minimize..

An Economic Design of Skip-Lot Sampling Plans

This paper reports the findings of the study of maintenance policies for the IBM 1620 system installed at the university's computing center. Three Maintenance policies were investigated by studying the operating characteristics of the system's two functional units, IBM 1620 Processor and IBM 1622 Card-Punch, covering the period of twenty-nine months. Cost minimization approach is used to determine the optimum policy among three alternatives. These three alternatives are: 1 repairs only; 2 scheduled maintenance at a time interval of t hours of operation without failure; 3 performing maintenance procedures at t, 2t, 3t,... regardless of intervening repairs.

The problems of gathering information and the condition of optimum for the alternatives 2 and 3 are discussed. The empirical result of this study is in favor of alternative 1 for servicing both functional units, 1622 and 1620.

John I. S. Hsu

Papers

An Economic Design of Skip-Lot Sampling Plans

An Empirical Study of Computer Maintenance Policies