Inspection and maintenance planning: An application of semi-Markov decision processes

Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 467-476

  Berenguer, Christophe ^a   Chu, Chengbin ^a   Grall, Antoine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TECHNOLOGIE DE TROYES   (France)

Author keywords

Inspection; Markov decision process; Optimal policy; Predictive maintenance

Indexed keywords

CONTROL THEORY; DECISION MAKING; INSPECTION; MAINTENANCE; MARKOV PROCESSES; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; PLANNING; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS;

MARKOV DECISION PROCESSES; PREDICTIVE MAINTENANCE;

PRODUCTION CONTROL;

EID: 0031246427     PISSN: 09565515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1018570518804     Document Type: Article

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