2024/01/22 by Shaomin Wu, Wu, Shaomin, Inma T. Castro +1
Engineering · Business, Management and Accounting · Health Professions · #Reliability and Maintenance Optimization #Life Cycle Costing Analysis #Quality and Safety in Healthcare
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2401.12263
This paper develops maintenance policies for a system under condition monitoring. We assume that a number of defects may develop and the degradation process of each defect follows a gamma process, respectively. The system is inspected periodically and maintenance actions are performed on the defects present in the system. The effectiveness of the maintenance is assumed imperfect and it is modelled using a geometric process. By performing these maintenance actions, different costs are incurred depending on the type and the degradation levels of the defects. Furthermore, once a linear combination of the degradation processes exceeds a pre-specified threshold, the system needs a special maintenance and an extra cost is imposed. The system is renewed after several preventive maintenance activities have been performed. The main concern of this paper is to optimise the time between renewals and the number of renewals. Numerical examples are given to illustrate the results derived in the paper.