Title :
Maintenance Improvement Policy to Optimise System Availability
Author :
Banerjee, S.K. ; Bhide, S.D.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electrical Engineering; Indian Institute of Technology; Powai, Bombay 400 076 INDIA.
fDate :
4/1/1981 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
It is necessary to maintain the level of system availability from the point of view of reliable service to consumers. One way of maintaining the required level of system availability is to improve the existing maintenance activity. This paper presents an algorithm to determine the optimal policy for improving existing maintenance activity.
Keywords :
Availability; Costs; Degradation; Delay effects; Equations; Maintenance; Power system reliability; Reliability theory; System testing; Maintainability; Maintenance policy; System repair time;
Journal_Title :
Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TR.1981.5220945
