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Maintenance Outsourcing: Issues and Challenges

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All products and systems are unreliable in the sense that they degrade and fail. Corrective maintenance (CM) restores a failed item to an operational state and effective preventive maintenance (PM) reduces the likelihood of failure. These maintenance actions can be done either in-house or can be outsourced to an external agent. We focus on the maintenance being outsourced and look at the issues involved from the perspectives of the owner of the asset and the agent providing the maintenance service.

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Dedicated to Professor Shunji Osaki on his seventieth birthday in recognition of his contributions and leadership of research in reliability and maintenance in Japan.

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  1. School of Mechanical and Mining Engineering, The University of Queensland, Queensland, QLD, Q 4072, Australia

    D. N. P. Murthy

  2. Dundee Business School, University of Abertay Dundee, Dundee, DD1 1HG, UK

    N. Jack

  3. Division of Operation and Maintenance Engineering, Luleå University of Technology, SE-971 87 , Luleå, Sweden

    U. Kumar

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    Tadashi Dohi

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    Toshio Nakagawa

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Murthy, D.N.P., Jack, N., Kumar, U. (2013). Maintenance Outsourcing: Issues and Challenges. In: Dohi, T., Nakagawa, T. (eds) Stochastic Reliability and Maintenance Modeling. Springer Series in Reliability Engineering, vol 9. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4971-2_3

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