Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10420007 | Reliability Engineering & System Safety | 2005 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
In real-world environments it is usually difficult to specify the quality of a preventive maintenance (PM) action precisely. This uncertainty makes it problematic to optimise maintenance policy. This problem is tackled in this paper by assuming that the quality of a PM action is a random variable following a probability distribution. Two frequently studied PM models, a failure rate PM model and an age reduction PM model, are investigated. The optimal PM policies are presented and optimised. Numerical examples are also given.
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Authors
Shaomin Wu, Derek Clements-Croome,