Maintenance has gone through many changes which have been caused by rapidly advancing technology, increasing equipment costs, training and managing very sophisticated machinery. The e-book reflects the breadth of the discipline to some extent.

Maintenance is as an essential factor that can lead to the reduction of "inefficiencies" and has to be considered as a well-established Enterprise Domain and as a profit centre. The development of optimized maintenance strategies may have great impacts not only on the equipment availability and...

This e-book contains selected papers invited/presented in the Asian International Workshop on Advanced Reliability Modeling (AIWARM) which was held in Hiroshima, Japan, August 26-27, 2004. 78 papers from Asian and European area were presented at the workshop. This e-book is intended to share the...