FM - A pragmatic tool to model, analyse and predict complex behaviour of industrial systems

Engineering Computations (Swansea, Wales)

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 319-346

  Sharma, Rajiv Kumar ^a   Kumar, Dinesh ^b   Kumar, Pradeep ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE   (India)

Author keywords

Failure (mechanical); Maintenance; Paper industry; Reliability management; System monitoring

Indexed keywords

FAILURE (MECHANICAL); MAINTENANCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PAPER AND PULP INDUSTRY; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

FAILURE MODE EFFECT ANALYSIS (FMEA); FUZZY SYNTHESIS; PRAGMATIC TOOLS; SYSTEM MONITORING;

FUZZY LOGIC;

FUZZY LOGIC; MAINTENANCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PAPER INDUSTRY; PULP INDUSTRY;

EID: 34249697490     PISSN: 02644401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02644400710748670     Document Type: Article

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