A model of imperfect preventive maintenance with dependent failure modes |
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Authors: | I.T. Castro |
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Affiliation: | Departamento de Matemáticas, Escuela Politécnica, 10071 Cáceres, Spain |
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Abstract: | Consider a system subject to two modes of failures: maintainable and non-maintainable. A failure rate function is related to each failure mode. Whenever the system fails, a minimal repair is performed. Preventive maintenances are performed at integer multiples of a fixed period. The system is replaced when a fixed number of preventive maintenances have been completed. The preventive maintenance is imperfect because it reduces the failure rate of the maintainable failures but does not affect the failure rate of the non-maintainable failures. The two failure modes are dependent in the following way: after each preventive maintenance, the failure rate of the maintainable failures depends on the total of non-maintainable failures since the installation of the system. The problem is to determine an optimal length between successive preventive maintenances and the optimal number of preventive maintenances before the system replacement that minimize the expected cost rate. Optimal preventive maintenance schedules are obtained for non-decreasing failure rates and numerical examples for power law models are given. |
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Keywords: | Doubly stochastic Poisson process Non-homogeneous Poisson process Minimal repair Maintainable failure mode Non-maintainable failure mode Increasing failure rate |
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