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A modified block replacement policy

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  • Menachem Berg
  • Benjamin Epstein

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A well known preventive replacement policy is the block replacement policy (BRP). In such a policy the item undergoes a planned replacement at a sequence of equally spaced time points independent of failure history. The main advantage of a BRP is its simplicity, because under this policy it is unnecessary to keep detailed records about times of failures or ages of items. The main drawback of a BRP is that at planned replacement times we may be replacing practically new items. In this paper we study a modified BRP which is free of this drawback. We calculate the expected cost of following a modified BRP for lifetime distributions possessing a special structure and illustrate it for the case of an Erlang distribution. A numerical comparison is made between a modified BRP and a standard BRP for the special case of a two stage Erlang distribution.

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  • Menachem Berg & Benjamin Epstein, 1976. "A modified block replacement policy," Naval Research Logistics Quarterly, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 23(1), pages 15-24, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:navlog:v:23:y:1976:i:1:p:15-24
    DOI: 10.1002/nav.3800230103
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    1. Philip A. Scarf & Mohammed Deara, 2003. "Block replacement policies for a two‐component system with failure dependence," Naval Research Logistics (NRL), John Wiley & Sons, vol. 50(1), pages 70-87, February.
    2. Alotaibi, Naif M. & Scarf, Philip & Cavalcante, Cristiano A.V. & Lopes, Rodrigo S. & de Oliveira e Silva, André Luiz & Rodrigues, Augusto J.S. & Alyami, Salem A., 2023. "Modified-opportunistic inspection and the case of remote, groundwater well-heads," Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Elsevier, vol. 237(C).
    3. Schouten, Thijs Nicolaas & Dekker, Rommert & Hekimoğlu, Mustafa & Eruguz, Ayse Sena, 2022. "Maintenance optimization for a single wind turbine component under time-varying costs," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 300(3), pages 979-991.
    4. Haijun Li, 2005. "Stochastic Comparison of Age-Dependent Block Replacement Policies," Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability, Springer, vol. 7(4), pages 473-488, December.

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