Achieved availability importance measure for enhancing reliability-centered maintenance decisions

An effective defense strategy requires aircraft, among other weapons systems, to be available and ready for use when circumstances deem necessary. This article offers a set of importance measures to identify the critical components in a system from their influence on system-achieved availability, a common Department of Defense availability calculation that is a ratio of mean time between maintenance and total system time, including mean maintenance time. With these measures, more effective maintenance plans, including inspection and supply inventory, can focus on those components that more significantly impact achieved availability. A decision-making formulation results from these component importance measures, and an example based on a US Air Force system illustrates the modeling contributions.Yeshttps://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/manuscript-submission-guideline

Scalability and Commercialization in Support of Sustainable Development Goals

This entry aims to clarify the state of scalability process to promote and guarantee sustainable development in the world. Scalability refers to the entrepreneurial ability to develop a system capable of supporting the increase in demand without worsening economic performance. Therefore, we can also refer to entrepreneurial scalability to new innovative startup. There are relevant examples on the market where creativity has been important for entrepreneurial scalability: Facebook, Twitter, or McDonald’s ideas. The organization of the entry is as follows: First, the notion of scalability is introduced in the business model context. The objective of this section is to provide a background of the various concepts used generally. Second, the scalability concept is presented in terms of economic sustainable development. Third, sustainability issues are described. Finally, the insights for future research are evidenced in the last section