Title :
Mean Time to Failure with Preventive Maintenance
Author :
Nakagawa, Toshio
Author_Institution :
Department of Mathematics; Meijo University; Nagoya 468 JAPAN.
Abstract :
This paper considers a periodic pm (preventive maintenance) policy where pm reduces the age of an operating unit by x units of time. We obtain i) the mean time to failure and ii) the s-expected number of pm´s before failure.
Keywords :
Biographies; Costs; Hazards; Mathematics; Preventive maintenance; Reliability theory; Imperfect preventive maintenance; Mean time to failure; Preventive maintenance;
Journal_Title :
Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TR.1980.5220865
