Optimal Predictive Maintenance Policies for a Deteriorating System: The Total Discounted Cost and the Long-Run Average Cost Cases

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 735-745

  Abdel Hameed, Mohamed S ^a,b  

^a UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^b UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Degradation processes; Markov renewal function; Markov renewal processes; Predictive maintenance policies; Semi Markov kernels

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PUBLIC POLICY;

PREDICTIVE MAINTENANCE POLICY;

PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 1642364520     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/STA-120028694     Document Type: Article

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