Optimum preventive maintenance policies for systems subject to random working times, replacement, and minimal repair

• Published in: Computers & industrial engineering Vol. 67; pp. 185 - 194
• Main Author: Chang, Chin-Chih
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Elsevier Ltd 01.01.2014; Pergamon Press Inc
• Subjects: Minimal repair; Operations research; Optimization; Optimization techniques; Preventive maintenance; Production scheduling; Random variables; Random working time; Reliability; Replacement; Studies; Working hours; Replacement; Reliability; Preventive maintenance; Optimization; Minimal repair; Random working time

•We analyze the preventive maintenance policy for systems with random working times.•The existence and uniqueness properties of optimal preventive maintenance policy are shown.•Imperfect maintenance is a stochastic choice between replacement and minimal repair.•The model provides a general framework...