Optimal policies with decreasing probability of imperfect maintenance

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 347-357

  Sheu, Shey Huei ^a   Lin, Yuh Bin ^b   Liao, Gwo Liang ^c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b TUNG NAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^c CHINA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Imperfect maintenance; Learning effect; Optimal; Preventive maintenance

Indexed keywords

MAINTENANCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE; REPAIR; THEOREM PROVING;

IMPERFECT MAINTENANCE; LEARNING EFFECT; OPTIMAL POLICIES; REPAIR MODELS;

PROBABILITY;

EID: 22444451377     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2005.847252     Document Type: Article

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