Developments in delay time analysis for modelling plant maintenance

Journal of the Operational Research Society

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1120-1137

  Christer, A H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Delay time concept; Engineering; Maintenance; Production; Reliability

Indexed keywords

DECISION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROCESS ENGINEERING; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING; RELIABILITY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

DELAY TIME ANALYSIS; NON-HOMOGENEOUS POISSON ARRIVAL RATES; PLANT MAINTENANCE MODELING;

PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 0033366210     PISSN: 01605682     EISSN: 14769360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.jors.2600837     Document Type: Article

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