• DocumentCode
    1342906
  • Title

    Comparison of Age, Block, and Failure Replacement Policies

  • Author

    Berg, Menachem ; Epstein, Benjamin

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Statistics; Haifa University; Haifa, ISRAEL.
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    1978
  • fDate
    4/1/1978 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    25
  • Lastpage
    29
  • Abstract
    Two widely used preventive replacement policies are the age replacement policy (ARP) and the block replacement policy (BRP). Another replacement policy is the failure replacement policy (FRP) in which no preventive replacements are made at all. In this paper we give a rule for choosing the least costly of the above three policies under conditions specified in the paper. The implementation of this rule is illustrated for two special cases, where the distribution of item life times is uniform, or 2-stage Erlang.
  • Keywords
    Cost function; Equations; Failure analysis; Fiber reinforced plastics; Reliability engineering; Sufficient conditions; Tellurium; Age; Block; Failure replacement policies;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9529
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TR.1978.5220230
  • Filename
    5220230
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1342906