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Maintenance of Light Standards, a Case-Study

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  • Rommert Dekker
  • J. Robert van der Meer

    (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

  • Raymond Ph. Plasmeijer

    (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

  • Ralph E. Wildeman

    (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

  • Jacco J. de Bruin

    (Europe Combined Terminals, Rotterdam)

Abstract

This paper discusses several strategies for the maintenance of light standards, where each light standard consists of n independent and identical lamps screwed on a chandelier. The lamps are subject to stochastic failures, and must be correctively replaced if the number of failed lamps reaches a prespecified number m; a norm that is set by the local management to guarantee a minimumluminance. As lamps have an increasing failure rate, and there is a fixed cost of hoisting the chandelier, we propose various variants of the m-failure group replacement rule which have in particular an age-criterion to indicate which of the non-failed lamps must be preventively replaced at the time that the chandelier is lowered for a corrective lamp replacement; we show how the optimalthreshold age can be determined. It appears that this modification reduces the long run average maintenance cost of the Europe Combined Terminals with approximately 8.3%.

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  • Rommert Dekker & J. Robert van der Meer & Raymond Ph. Plasmeijer & Ralph E. Wildeman & Jacco J. de Bruin, 1996. "Maintenance of Light Standards, a Case-Study," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers 96-166/9, Tinbergen Institute.
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