Periodic and sequential preventive maintenance policies
- 1 June 1986
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Applied Probability
- Vol. 23 (2) , 536-542
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3214197
Abstract
This paper considers periodic and sequential preventive maintenance (PM) policies for the system with minimal repair at failure: the PM is done (i) at periodic times kx and (ii) at constant intervals xk (k = 1, 2, ···, N). The system has a different failure distribution between PM'S and is replaced at the Nth PM. The optimal policies which minimize the expected cost rates are discussed. The optimal x and N of periodic PM and {xk} of sequential PM are easily computed in a Weibull distribution case.Keywords
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