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Health Care Optimization by Maximizing the Air-Ambulance Operation Time

  • Melhim, Loai Kayed B.
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.357-361
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    • 2022
  • Employing the available technologies and utilizing the advanced means to improve the level of health care provided to citizens in their various locations. Citizens have the right to get a proper health care services despite the location of their residency or the distance from the health care delivery centers, a goal that can be achieved by utilizing air ambulance systems. In such systems, aircrafts and their life spans are the essential component, the flight duration of the aircraft during its life span is determined by the maintenance schedule. This research, enhances the air ambulance systems by presenting a proposal that maximizes the aircraft flight duration during its life span. The enhancement will be reached by developing a set of algorithms that handles the aircraft maintenance problem. The objective of these algorithms is to minimize the maximum completion time of all maintenance tasks, thus increasing the aircraft operation time. Practical experiments performed to these algorithms showed the ability of these algorithms to achieve the desired goal. The developed algorithms will manage the maintenance scheduling problem to maximize the uptime of the air ambulance which can be achieved by maximizing the minimum life of spare parts. The developed algorithms showed good performance measures during experimental tests. The 3LSL algorithm showed a higher performance compared to other algorithms during all performed experiments.

The selection of RCM analysis system for efficient PM Tasks (효과적인 PM 업무를 위한 RCM분석대상 시스템의 선정)

  • Kim, Min-Ho;Song, Kee-Tae;Baek, Young-Gu;Lee, Key-Seo;Yoon, Hwa-Hyun
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2007.11a
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    • pp.784-791
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    • 2007
  • Most operational organization and railway authority which conduct scheduled maintenance(SM) have carried out the preventive maintenance(PM) based on the information provided from supplier and manufacturer of railway system. However these activities are far away from reality and low the efficiency, it is because an appropriate methods for system selection didn't take into account for improving maintenance efficiency. Therefore, the current SM tasks and maintenance activities lead to lots of spend on the cost and time. To solve the above problem, this thesis presents new approach methodology. This proposes the criteria for reliability centered maintenance(RCM) system selection through level of quantification of each parameter, i.e, frequency, severity and maintenance cost, etc. To do this, the field operation data and information of maintenance cost are essential. As applying this methodology, we can look forward to improving efficiency of PM/SM, and reducing cost.

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Design of a Plant Life Cycle Data Management System for Plant Operation and Maintenance (플랜트 설계 및 운영 데이터 통합관리 시스템 설계)

  • Lee, Jae Hyun;Suh, Hyo Won
    • Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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    • v.42 no.3
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    • pp.241-248
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    • 2016
  • Plant life cycle consists of design, construction, certification, operation, and maintenance phases, and various and enormous plant life cycle data is involved in each phase. Plant life cycle data should be linked with each other based on its proper relationships, so that plant operators can access necessary plant data during their regular operations and maintenance works. Currently, the relationships of plant life cycle data may not be defined explicitly, or they are scattered over several plant information systems. This paper proposes high level design of a plant life cycle data management system based on pre-defined plant life cycle database design. ISO-15926 standard is adapted for the database design. User-interface designs of the plant life cycle data management system are explained based on analysis of plant owners' requirements. A conceptual design of the database is also described with the entity-relationship diagram.

Oral Quinidine Therapy for the Maintenance of Sinus Rhythm After Mitral Valve Surgery (승모판 수술후 동율동 유지에 대한 Quinidine의 효과)

  • 윤태진
    • Journal of Chest Surgery
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    • v.26 no.4
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    • pp.249-254
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    • 1993
  • Atrial fibrillation is commonly associated with organic mitral valve disease including rheumatic valvular heart diasease or mitral valve prolapse and so forth. Although spontaneous sinus reversion may occur in some patients after mitral valve operation, recurrence of atrial fibrillation is the rule in most of these patients. We have tried to maintain sinus rhythm after mital valve operation with oral quinidine therapy, and we will show the efficacy of this therapy in this report. From January 1986 to August 1992, 60 patients of mitral valvular heart disease, who had had atrial fibrillation preoperatively and gained sinus rhythm postoperatively, were selected for this study. These patients were divided into 2 groups: Control group [n=30] and Quinidine trial group [n=30]. The age,sex, duration of symptoms,left atrial size and other risk factors of the reversion to atrial fibrillation were adjusted to be similar between the two groups. The maintenance rate of sinus rhythm was calculated by Kaplan-Meier method, and the rate was significantly higher in quinidine trial group than in control group [ p=0.0001 ]. Univariate analysis was performed on the risk factors of reversion to atrial fibrillation, and the difference of maintenance rate between the two groups were corrected with this result: the difference was still statistically significant [ p=0.0205 ]. The quinidine levels were measured in postoperative days, and there were no difference of serum quinidine level between the quinidine success group and quinidine failure group. In conslusion, oral quinidine therapy was effective for the maintenance of sinus rhythm after mitral valve operation compared to control group, and there was no correlation between the serum quinidine level and clinical efficacy of quinidine therpy.

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Development of an Assembly-type Liquid Level Control Experimental Equipment and a Hands-on Activity Task for Vocational High School 'Chemical Process Maintenance Operation' Subject (특성화고 '화학공정유지운영' 교과를 위한 조립형 액위제어 실험장치 및 체험활동과제 개발)

  • Jung, Eun-Suk;Lee, Kyung Taek
    • 대한공업교육학회지
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    • v.45 no.2
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    • pp.1-20
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    • 2020
  • The purpose of this study is to develop an assembly-type liquid level control experimental equipment and a hands-on activity task that can be applied to the class so that students studying the chemical industry can easily understand the liquid level control. For this purpose, the content elements related to liquid level control in the chemical industry practice course of the 2015 revised curriculum was analyzed, a hands-on activity task with an assembly-type liquid level control experimental equipment was and developed. And then, expert verification was also performed and the hands-on activity task was applied to 19 students of S meister high school. The results obtained through this are as follows. First, the existing completion-type liquid level control experimental equipment was explored, and based on this, a new assembly-type liquid level control experimental equipment that can be assembled by students and used for practices was designed and manufactured. Second. by analyzing the contents of the NCS-based 'Chemical Process Maintenance Operation' practical course of the 2015 revised curriculum, learning contents related to level control were extracted. Among the contents related to the level control, the practice with understanding the process flow chart, manufacturing the level control experimental equipment, measuring the flow rate, and checking the level control phenomenon were conducted with the assembly-type liquid level control experimental equipment to systematically learn the level control.

A Study on Track Distribution Function of Urban Rail Systems (도시철도 선로의 배선기능 증진에 관한 연구)

  • Hong, Chul-Kee;Yang, Shin-Chu;Kim, Youn-Tae
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2004.10a
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    • pp.1174-1179
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    • 2004
  • In general, the national rail system put an emphasis on distribution planing of stations for smooth operation of transporting goods, train allocation, parking, and maintenance. Since the national rail system is operated on the ground level, it is feasible to improve various aspects of the system during its operation. On the contrary, urban rail system is operated in the limited space under the ground, and thus, improving various aspects of the system during its operation is infeasible. Specifically, the urban subway system must have a comprehensive track distribution plan because the urban subway system has to operate in a limited environment such as it operates in a much shorter time period, The subway system has to be ready for various operations and events such as trains returning in the opposite direction. parking trains that need repair, parking during night time, storing various maintenance equipments, and connections to other tracks. Furthermore, considering the future extension of tracks, a comprehensive track distribution plan is a must.

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A Study on the Concept of a Ship Predictive Maintenance Model Reflection Ship Operation Characteristics (선박 운항 특성을 반영한 선박 예지 정비 모델 개념 제안)

  • Youn, Ik-Hyun;Park, Jinkyu;Oh, Jungmo
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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    • v.27 no.1
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    • pp.53-59
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    • 2021
  • The marine transport industry generally applies new technologies later than other transport industries, such as airways and railways. Vessels require efficient operation, and their performance and lifespan depend on the level of maintenance and management. Many studies have shown that corrective maintenance (CM) and time-based maintenance (TBM) have restrictions with respect to enabling efficient maintenance of workload and cost to improve operational efficiency. Predictive maintenance (PdM) is an advanced technology that allows monitoring the condition and performance of a target machine to predict its time of failure and helps maintain the key machinery in optimal working conditions at all times. This study presents the development of a marine predictive maintenance (MPdM; maritime predictive maintenance) method based on applying PdM to the marine environment. The MPdM scheme is designed by considering the special environment of the marine transport industry and the extreme marine conditions. Further, results of the study elaborates upon the concept of MPdM and its necessity to advancing marine transportation in the future.

Optimal Software Release Time Considering Maintenance during Operation (출시후 보수를 고려한 소프트웨어의 최적 출시시기)

  • Lee, Chin-Seung;Na, Il-Yong;Hong, Jung-Sik;Lie, Chang-Hoon
    • Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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    • v.30 no.4
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    • pp.261-266
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    • 2004
  • In this paper, the software reliability growth model which incorporates the periodic maintenance after the release is proposed. Using the proposed model, the debugging and periodic maintenance cost subject to the required level of the software reliability are investigated. An optimal software release time is derived for a fixed interval of periodic maintenance. To validate the proposed model, release times obtained in this study are compared with examples. The proposed investigation is expected to be served as one of factors in determining the release time of the software where periodic maintenance is considered.

Education Contents Development that Use Thermoelectric Power Plant Generation Facility Third Dimensional Model (3차원 모델을 활용한 발전설비 교육컨텐츠 개발)

  • Kim, Seok-B.;Back, Nam-H.;Son, Kwang-S.;Kim, Joo-Seok;Moon, Seung-Jae;Lee, Jae-Heon
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.03b
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    • pp.362-368
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    • 2008
  • The purpose of this is providing employees who take charge of operation and maintenance at power plant with education contents that can be used for self-studying and on the job training through their computers. We developed the education contents for making actually application possible using this piping and instrument diagram(P&ID), operation and maintenance procedure, unit specification and material of 500MW thermal power plant those include unit equipment 3-dimension animation, character and narration performance considering making teaching plan, flexibility, extension, reuse, maintenance and focusing on user. Specially, we developed the flash type education contents about power plant operation based on the plant 3-dimension animation and the spot real picture concerned about new generation trend for power plant incoming employees actual knowledge. in addition, this contents apparently contributed to improve the level of employees technical power as distributed to employees.

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Optimal Spare Provisioning for Group Replacement Policy (경제적인 그룹교체보전을 위한 최적 예비품 재고수준의 결정)

  • Yoo, Young Kwan;Park, Roh Gook
    • Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.81-86
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    • 2014
  • In this paper, a jointly optimal group replacement and spare provisioning policy is presented. Most maintenance policies assume that the spare inventory is always available, but in practice the maintenance schedule is affected by the availability of spare inventory. We present a maintenance-inventory model which jointly optimizes the group replacement interval and spare ordering quantity. Group replacement policy is used when a group of units are put in operation simultaneously. The operating fleet is replaced altogether at a predetermined number of units are failed. A sufficient level of spare inventory is carried to perform a number of group replacement. A cost rate expression which considers the group maintenance cost and inventory holding cost is derived and a heuristic method for searching the optimum value of decision variables is suggested. Numerical examples demonstrate the analytical results and the performance of the presented model.

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