Title :
Optimum Preventive Maintenance Policies for Repairable Systems
Author :
Nakagawa, Toshio
Author_Institution :
Department of Mathematics; Meijo University; Nagoya 468 JAPAN.
Abstract :
This paper summarizes my recent work in analyzing preventive maintenance of the following kinds of repairable systems: 1-unit systems, 2-unit standby systems, and a system with unrepairable spare units. Some appropriate reliability measures of such systems are given, and optimum preventive maintenance policies which maximize or minimize these measures are derived under suitable conditions.
Keywords :
Availability; Cost function; Inspection; Preventive maintenance; Reliability theory; Steady-state; Time measurement; Failure rate; Optimization; Preventive maintenance; Repairable system;
Journal_Title :
Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TR.1977.5220105
