Title :
Two Criteria for Preventive Maintenance
Author :
Chan, P.K.W. ; Downs, T.
Author_Institution :
Department of Electrical Engineering; University of Queensland; St. Lucia, Qld 4067; Brisbane, AUSTRALIA.
Abstract :
The purposes of this paper are to model the effects of imperfect maintenance, and from the model to derive conditions under which preventive maintenance is beneficial. The criteria are derived via: 1) maximization of the steady state availability and 2) minimization of the s-expected cost per unit time over an infinite time span when the maintenance times are non-zero.
Keywords :
Australia; Availability; Costs; H infinity control; Preventive maintenance; Reliability engineering; Reliability theory; Steady-state; Availability; Imperfect maintenance; Semi-Markov process; s-Expected cost rate;
Journal_Title :
Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TR.1978.5220367
