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
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