Simultaneous determination of preventive maintenance and replacement policies in a queue-like production system with minimal repair

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 161-167

  Hsu, Lie Fern ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Minimal repair; Preventive maintenance; Queue; Replacement

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS; MAINTENANCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRODUCTION; PUBLIC POLICY; REPAIR;

MINIMAL REPAIR; QUEUE LIKE PRODUCTION SYSTEM; REPLACEMENT POLICIES;

PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 0033079750     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0951-8320(98)00035-0     Document Type: Article

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