Condition based maintenance model for a production deteriorating system

This paper addresses a condition based maintenance model taking into account both maintenance cost and production capacity aspects for a single unit production system whose condition is monitored by inspection relying on an aperiodic inspection schedule. In order to assess the performance of the proposed maintenance policy, maintenance cost per unit of product is introduced and calculated analytically. A numerical example of a multi state production system is finally introduced to illustrate the performance of the proposed policy, as well as the advantages of proposed evaluation approach.