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Optimum Preventive Maintenance Policies

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  • Richard Barlow

    (Sylvania Electronic Defense Laboratory, Mountain View, California)

  • Larry Hunter

    (Sylvania Electronic Defense Laboratory, Mountain View, California)

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Two types of preventive maintenance policies are considered. A policy is defined to be optimum if it maximizes “limiting efficiency,” i.e., fractional amount of up-time over long intervals. Elementary renewal theory is used to obtain optimum policies. The optimum policies are determined, in each case, as unique solutions of certain integral equations depending on the failure distribution. It is shown that both solutions are also minimum cost solutions when the proper identifications are made. The two optimum policies are compared under certain restrictions.

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  • Richard Barlow & Larry Hunter, 1960. "Optimum Preventive Maintenance Policies," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 8(1), pages 90-100, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:oropre:v:8:y:1960:i:1:p:90-100
    DOI: 10.1287/opre.8.1.90
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