• DocumentCode
    1345311
  • Title

    Imperfect Preventive-Maintenance

  • Author

    Nakagawa, Toshio

  • Author_Institution
    Department of Mathematics; Meijo University; Nagoya 468 JAPAN.
  • Issue
    5
  • fYear
    1979
  • Firstpage
    402
  • Lastpage
    402
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9529
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TR.1979.5220657
  • Filename
    5220657