Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1149550 Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 2012 12 Pages PDF
Abstract

The configuration of a repairable system directly influences its performance measures, such as mean time between failures and steady state availability. Additionally, maintenance strategies such as corrective, preventive, and condition-based can affect the performance of the system. The objective of this work is to investigate the trade-offs between the configuration of a repairable multi-state system with binary components and its maintenance strategy. The corresponding stochastic process for the proposed model is formulated using the continuous-time Markov process and important performance measures of such a multi-state system are derived. An optimization model is introduced for the cost-effective design of this repairable multi-state system. The results are demonstrated using a numerical example for a power generation system.

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