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.
fDate :
6/1/1974 12:00:00 AM
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;
Journal_Title :
Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TR.1974.5215212
