Assessment of the types of public building maintenance contracts in Saudi Arabia

The study revealed that Fixed Price, Cost Plus and Purchased Labour contracts are the top three maintenance contracts adopted whilst Unit Price, Cost Plus A Percentage Fee contracts are alternatives used in the Kingdom. Some other types of maintenance contract were thought to be inappropriate by ministry departments.     

Facilities management, building maintenance and modernization link

The widening of interest and scope of property management and maintenance has attracted a greater diversity of professional disciplines into facilities management. Dr Quah, coordinator of CIB W70 on Management, Maintenance and Modernization of Building facilities, expresses her personal views on the current fascination with the subject.     

XIV. Yeast sequencing reports. Sequence of MKT1, needed for propagation of M2 satellite dsRNA of the L-A virus of Saccharomyces cerevisiae

MKT1 is required for m aintenance of K₂ above 30°C in strains with the L-A-HN variant of the L-A double-stranded RNA virus of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. We report that MKT1 encodes a 92 979 Da protein with serine-rich regions and the retroviral protease signature, DTG, but with no substantial homology to proteins presently in the databases. This sequence is available from GenBank under Accession Number U09129.     

计算机房常用教学软件的安装和维护

高校的计算机房所用的操作系统大多数是Windows,常用教学软件的安装和维护,需要有非常丰富的计算机知识和动手能力很强的计算机老师来担当,学校的教学机房的维护管理好坏,直接影响到计算机的正常教学工作,该作者从事过一段机房软件安装、维护、管理工作,在此把他的管理经验和技巧归纳了一下。     

钢铁企业全厂仪表维修设施设计初探

以我国某大型钢铁企业全厂仪表维修设施的设计方案为例,简要说明了仪修设施的设计原则、全厂仪表维修的一般解决方案,较详细地介绍了仪修设施专业划分、实验室及维修车间的设置和主要设备构成,为该类项目的设计和工程建设提供一定参考。     

Optimal imperfect preventive maintenance policy for equipment leased during successive periods

In this paper, we consider randomly failing equipment leased several times during their life cycle with a given warranty period. A mathematical model is developed to determine the optimal efficiency levels of preventive maintenance (PM) to be performed on the equipment between successive lease periods, maximising the expected total profit of the lessor over the equipment life cycle. The model considers the expected leasing revenue as well as the equipment acquisition cost and the average PM and repair costs. PM actions allow reducing the age of the equipment to a certain extent with a corresponding cost depending on the PM level adopted. The efficiency of the PM is determinant of the expected revenue during the next lease period. Given a set of K possible PM levels and the number of lease periods n over the equipment life cycle, K^{n?1 PM} strategies are possible. A genetic algorithm is proposed in order to obtain nearly optimal policies in situations where the number of possibilities K^n?1 is very high. Obtained numerical results are discussed. Small- and big-size instances of the problem are considered in the case of a service company in the oil and gas industry specialised in leasing specific equipment such as separators, to oil companies for production activities with a limited duration of several months like well testing or short production tests.     

Windows98系统下的远程维护方法

指出在Windos98操作系统下远程维护的必要性,并从理论上分析了实现远程维护的可能性,最后给出实现远程维护的两种方法。     

办公网络的设备选择与维护

计算机网络技术的飞速发展,计算机网络的应用也越来越多,促使很多企业也开始扩展网络办公及其他网络业务,那么网络设备的选择与维护便成为他们最关心的问题。     

计算机维修模拟训练系统的设计与实现

探索了一种在多媒体环境下进行计算机及外部设备维修教学、训练的新方法 ,介绍了计算机维修模拟训练系统的设计与实现 ,给出了主要的设计思想、总体结构及关键技术。     

Note on “Unrelated parallel-machine scheduling with deteriorating maintenance activities”

In this note, we prove that both problems studied by Cheng et al. [Cheng, T. C. E., Hsu, C.-J., & Yang, D.-L. (2011). Unrelated parallel-machine scheduling with deteriorating maintenance activities. Computers and Industrial Engineering, 60, 602–605] can be solved in O(n^m+3) time no matter what the processing time of a job after a maintenance activity is greater or less than its processing time before the maintenance activity, where m is the number of machines and n is the number of jobs.