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Periodic and sequential preventive maintenance policies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Toshio Nakagawa*
Affiliation:
Meijo University
*
Postal address: Meijo University, Department of Mathematics, Tenpaku-cho, Tenpaku-ku, Nagoya 468, Japan.

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.

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Short Communications
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1986 

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