The article is concerned with competitive cost and availability estimates of complex engineering systems at the bidding stage of availability type support services contracts (CfA). Such estimates are important to calculate the best price that will win the contract in a competitive bidding...

There is a valuable engineering business opportunity to be gained by judging the optimum balance between the time invested in performing Preventive Maintenance (PM) and Corrective Maintenance (CM). This paper considers this at the equipment type level, which is the Ministry of Defence’s...

An Industrial Product-Service System (iPS2) is a system that integrates products and services based on systems thinking in an industrial context. Compared with services alone, it creates opportunities for better economic and environmental outcomes because of the additional design parameters,...