Customer-oriented Level of Service Maintenance Management System

Customer-oriented Level of Service Maintenance Management System
Author: Dye Management Group, Inc
Publisher:
Total Pages: 62
Release: 2005
Genre: Roads
ISBN:

The PErformance COntrolled System (PeCoS) system has been used by the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) for over 25 years, with at least one upgrade (PeCoS II) during that period. It has helped maintenance managers develop and carry out maintenance programs by providing tools for planning, organizing, directing, and controlling maintenance work, including performance guidelines for each maintenance activity and management reports on various aspects of the work accomplished and the cost of performing the work. The thrust of the maintenance management system over the years has been to develop and carry out programs in the most efficient way possible. However, PeCoS does not provide information on level of service (LOS) outcomes, i.e., the effectiveness of the maintenance programs. The objective of this project is to develop a customer-oriented LOS maintenance management system, a unique approach that focuses on the needs of Arizona's traveling public and identifies the results of maintenance work. To achieve this objective, the functions have been defined and conceptual design conducted for the new system. Industry best practices have been surveyed among twelve states to identify how the new system can benefit from industry innovations. A highly detailed approach has been employed for gathering public perception of Arizona's highway maintenance program through statewide focus groups and attitude surveys to identify customer needs and concerns. The project also employs a rigorous approach to condition assessment and determining budget levels. Opportunities have been evaluated to integrate life cycle cost analysis (LCCA) into ADOT's maintenance activities. Finally the project has developed a software strategy and implementation plan.

Future Intent-Based Networking

Future Intent-Based Networking
Author: Mikhailo Klymash
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 531
Release: 2021-12-09
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3030924351

So-called Intent-Based Networking (IBN) is founded on well-known SDN (Software-Defined Networking) and represents one of the most important emerging network infrastructure opportunities. The IBN is the beginning of a new era in the history of networking, where the network itself translates business intentions into appropriate network configurations for all devices. This minimizes manual effort, provides an additional layer of network monitoring, and provides the ability to perform network analytics and take full advantage of machine learning. The centralized, software-defined solution provides process automation and proactive problem solving as well as centralized management of the network infrastructure. With software-based network management, many operations can be performed automatically using intelligent control algorithms (artificial intelligence and machine learning). As a result, network operation costs, application response times and energy consumption are reduced, network reliability and performance are improved, network security and flexibility are enhanced. This will be a benefit for existing networks as well as evolved LTE-based mobile networks, emerging Internet of Things (IoT), Cloud systems, and soon for the future 5G/6G networks. The future networks will reach a whole new level of self-awareness, self-configuration, self-optimization, self-recovery and self-protection. This volume consists of 28 chapters, based on recent research on IBN.The volume is a collection of the most important research for the future intent-based networking deployment provided by different groups of researchers from Ukraine, Germany, Slovak Republic, Switzerland, South Korea, China, Czech Republic, Poland, Brazil, Belarus and Israel. The authors of the chapters from this collection present in depth extended research results in their scientific fields.The presented contents are highly interesting while still being rather practically oriented and straightforward to understand. Herewith we would like to wish all our readers a lot of inspiration by studying of the volume!

Emerging Trends in the Evolution of Service-Oriented and Enterprise Architectures

Emerging Trends in the Evolution of Service-Oriented and Enterprise Architectures
Author: Eman El-Sheikh
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2016-09-23
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3319405640

This book presents emerging trends in the evolution of service-oriented and enterprise architectures. New architectures and methods of both business and IT are integrating services to support mobility systems, Internet of Things, Ubiquitous Computing, collaborative and adaptive business processes, Big Data, and Cloud ecosystems. They inspire current and future digital strategies and create new opportunities for the digital transformation of next digital products and services. Services Oriented Architectures (SOA) and Enterprise Architectures (EA) have emerged as a useful framework for developing interoperable, large-scale systems, typically implementing various standards, like Web Services, REST, and Microservices. Managing the adaptation and evolution of such systems presents a great challenge. Service-Oriented Architecture enables flexibility through loose coupling, both between the services themselves and between the IT organizations that manage them. Enterprises evolve continuously by transforming and extending their services, processes and information systems. Enterprise Architectures provide a holistic blueprint to help define the structure and operation of an organization with the goal of determining how an organization can most effectively achieve its objectives. The book proposes several approaches to address the challenges of the service-oriented evolution of digital enterprise and software architectures.

Guidelines for Maintenance Management Systems

Guidelines for Maintenance Management Systems
Author:
Publisher: AASHTO
Total Pages: 60
Release: 2005
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN:

The basic objective of this guide is to provide a high-level vision for an effective maintenance management system for highways, in today's environment. It is meant to help managers at all organizational levels understand how good management practices can benefit the agency. It outlines the key maintenance management system principles, presents a framework for maintenance management system implementation, and describes system features and integration requirements. It discusses new and emerging technologies that can enable more effective and efficient maintenance operations.

Institutional Architectures to Improve Systems Operations and Management

Institutional Architectures to Improve Systems Operations and Management
Author:
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2012
Genre: Organizational effectiveness
ISBN: 0309129192

"The objective of this research was to undertake a comprehensive and systematic examination of the way agencies should be organized to successfully execute operations programs that improve travel time reliability. The following types of questions were examined at the outset of this research: How does operations fit into a transportation agency's overall program? What changes can be made in agency culture and training to promote operations? Which local and regional public agencies and private-sector organizations are essential to the various aspects of operations? Are there emerging technologies, systems, or organizational structures that can be used to advance intra-agency and interagency communications and therefore operations? The research addressed a large number of topics concerning organizational and institutional approaches that could enhance highway operations and travel time reliability. The most fruitful investigation was identification of the Capability Maturity Model, used extensively in the information technology field for organizational self-assessment and continuous improvement of quality and reliability. The researchers recognized that a version of the Capability Maturity Model could be developed and applied to highway operations and in turn travel time reliability. Elements defining different levels of maturity include culture/leadership, organization and staffing, resource allocation, and partnerships."--Publisher's description.

Product Focused Software Process Improvement

Product Focused Software Process Improvement
Author: Frank Bomarius
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 394
Release: 2003-06-30
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3540448136

The Third International Conference on Product Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 2001) continued the success of the PROFES’99 and PROFES 2000 conferences. PROFES 2001 was organized in Kaiserslautern, Germany, September 10 13, 2001. The PROFES conference has its roots in the PROFES Esprit project (http://www.ele.vtt.fi/profes/), but it quickly evolved into a full fledged general purpose conference in 1999 and since then it has gained wide spread international popularity. As in previous years, the main theme of PROFES 2001 was professional software process improvement (SPI) motivated by product and service quality needs. SPI is facilitated by software process assessment, software measurement, process modeling, and technology transfer and has become a practical tool for quality software engineering and management. The conference addresses both the solutions found in practice as well as relevant research results from academia. The purpose of the conference is to bring to light the most recent findings and results in the area and to stimulate discussion between the researchers, experienced professionals, and technology providers for SPI.

15th WCEAM Proceedings

15th WCEAM Proceedings
Author: João Onofre Pereira Pinto
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 486
Release: 2022-03-24
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3030967948

This book gathers selected peer-reviewed papers from the 15th World Congress on Engineering Asset Management (WCEAM), which was hosted by The Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul Campo Grande, Brazil, from 15–-18 August 2021 This book covers a wide range of topics in engineering asset management, including: strategy and standards; sustainability and resiliency; servitisation and Industry 4.0 business models; asset information systems; and asset management decision-making. The breadth and depth of these state-of-the-art, comprehensive proceedings make them an excellent resource for asset management practitioners, researchers, and academics, as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students.