• DocumentCode
    1316762
  • Title

    An Optimal Maintenance Policy for a 2-Unit Parallel System with Degraded States

  • Author

    Mine, Hisashi ; Kawai, Hajime

  • Author_Institution
    Department of Applied Mathematics and Physics, Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    1974
  • fDate
    6/1/1974 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    81
  • Lastpage
    86
  • Abstract
    The system consists of two identical units in parallel with good, degraded, and failed states. We discuss a maintenance policy that maximizes the expected net profit-rate from the system over an infinite time span. General equations which describe the system behavior under a certain maintenance policy are derived. The optimal maintenance policy can be determined by solving those equations.
  • Keywords
    Costs; Degradation; Electrical capacitance tomography; Equations; Markov processes; Mathematics; Physics; Preventive maintenance; Reliability engineering; Reliability theory;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9529
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TR.1974.5215212
  • Filename
    5215212