Title :
Imperfect Preventive-Maintenance
Author :
Nakagawa, Toshio
Author_Institution :
Department of Mathematics; Meijo University; Nagoya 468 JAPAN.
Abstract :
This paper considers a periodic preventive maintenance (pm) policy with ``minimal repair´´ at failure; pm is imperfect. A special case of failure (hazard) rate improvement is postulated wherein pm reduces the failure rate, but does not return the time origin all the way to zero.
Keywords :
Biographies; Cost function; Failure analysis; Hazards; Mathematics; Preventive maintenance; Reliability theory; Steady-state; Imperfect pm; Optimization; Preventive maintenance (pm); s-Expected cost;
Journal_Title :
Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TR.1979.5220657
