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A preventive maintenance policy and a method to approximate the failure process for multi-component systems

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  • Wu, Shaomin
  • Asadi, Majid

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Numerous maintenance policies have been proposed in the reliability mathematics and engineering literature. Nevertheless, little has been reported on their practical applications in industries. This gap is largely due to restrictive assumptions of the maintenance policies. Two of the main assumptions are that maintenance is conducted on typical components and that the reliability of an item under maintenance is known (where the item can be a component or a system composed of multiple components). These assumptions do not often hold in the real world: maintenance is often performed on a collection of components such as an integrated circuit plate and the reliability of each individual component may not be known. To reduce these gaps, this paper develops a new maintenance policy for a collection of components and an approximate method to estimate the reliability of this collection based on the failure data collected from the field. The maintenance policy considers that a system is composed of three subsystems with different levels of maintenance effectiveness (i.e, minimal, imperfect, and perfect). The approximate estimate of the reliability of each subsystem is derived based on the failure data that are time between failures of the system but not those of the components that cause the system to fail. An algorithm for simulating the superposition of generalised renewal processes is then proposed. Numerical examples are used to illustrate the proposed approximation method.

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  • Wu, Shaomin & Asadi, Majid, 2024. "A preventive maintenance policy and a method to approximate the failure process for multi-component systems," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 318(3), pages 825-835.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ejores:v:318:y:2024:i:3:p:825-835
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2024.05.039
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