Marginally monotonic maintenance policies for a multi-state deteriorating machine with probabilistic monitoring, and silent failures

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 489-497

  Ivy, Julie Simmons ^a   Pollock, Stephen M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Maintenance; Maintenance cost optimization; Monotonic structure; Partially observable Markov decision process; Threshold policy

Indexed keywords

CONDITION MONITORING; FAILURE ANALYSIS; MAINTENANCE; MANUFACTURE; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY;

MAINTENANCE COST OPTIMIZATION; MONOTONIC STRUCTURE; PARTIALLY OBSERVABLE MARKOV DECISION PROCESS; THRESHOLD POLICY;

RELIABILITY THEORY;

EID: 27844500194     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2005.853443     Document Type: Article

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