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Year:
2002

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Volume:
6

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Issue:
1

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Article:
3
Safety Science Monitor
Introduction

Traditionally the maintenance onboard is carried out as per a schedule (preventive) that could be either calendar time or running time based. This is based on the assumption that every piece of machinery has a predictable useful life. However modern research investigating the way components fail has questioned this paradigm. Three such analyses have been carried out by United Airlines in 1968, Bromberg in 1973 & the US Navy in 1982 (NASA, 2000). While there is admittedly considerable variation in the results, the inferences drawn remain indisputable. We could divide the life cycle of a component into three stages.

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Author

A. J. MOKASHI

Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai - 76, India.

H. DASTUR

Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai - 76, India.

J. WANG

School of Eng., Liverpool John Moores University, L3 3AF, UK

A.K. VERMA

Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai - 76, India.

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