International Journal of Production and Maintenance Engineering (IJPME)

The International Journal of Production and Maintenance Engineering (IJPME) is an open access quarterly journal that publishes papers involving conceptual, preliminary, and detailed design, development, testing and optimisation of products, systems and operations; alternatives and models in decision making; models for environmental, social, and economic evaluations; probabilistic and statistical methods for system analysis; queuing theory and analysis; control concepts and techniques; reliability, maintainability, supportability, and environmental, social, and economic feasibility; logistics management; trends in global agile supply chain management. Industrial organisations, productivity and competitiveness; analysis of acquisition, process development, and resource utilisation; analysis of operational issues; improvement of organisational overall performance and competitiveness through the use of discrete simulation modelling and other computer software packages. The journal also publishes papers involving operations research models, transportation problem, network models, dynamic optimisation models, and inventory scheduling.

IJPME also publishes articles concerned with repair and maintenance systems, terotechnology, automation, maintenance cost reduction, maintenance philosophy, maintenance systems and maintainability; failure rate curves, inherent and operational availability, procedure for sampling and testing; test plan for determination of mean time to repair (MTTR) or maintainability, computerized evaluation of MTTRs and other related parameters; design for maintainability; condition-based maintenance; non-destructive testing techniques, computerized maintenance management systems; recent advances in maintenance engineering and management; case studies of interest to production industries. Review of the concepts of production systems and computer integrated manufacturing, production system facilities, manufacturing support systems, automation and manual labour in production systems, manufacturing operations, automation and control technologies; numerical control (NC), computer numerical control (CNC), direct numerical control (DNC), NC part programming, engineering analysis of NC positioning systems, APT programming; industrial robotic engineering, anatomy and attributes, control systems, programmable logic controllers; materials handling and identification technologies, material transport systems, storage systems, and automatic data capture; manufacturing systems, single station manufacturing cells, group technology and cellular manufacturing, flexible manufacturing systems (FMS), manual assembly lines, transfer lines, and automated assembly systems; quality control systems; manufacturing support systems, product design and Computer-aided Design (CAD)/Computer-aided Manufacturing (CAM) in the production system.

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