A generic model of equipment availability under imperfect maintenance

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 564-571

  Cassady, C Richard ^a   Iyoob, Ilyas Mohammed ^b   Schneider, Kellie ^a   Pohl, Edward A ^a  

^a 3202 Bell Engineering Center   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Availability; Imperfect maintenance; Replacement; Virtual age

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; AVAILABILITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MAINTAINABILITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RELIABILITY; REPAIR;

EQUIPMENT AVAILABILITY; GENERIC MODEL; IMPERFECT MAINTENANCE; REPLACEMENT; VIRTUAL AGE;

MAINTENANCE;

EID: 29344458333     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2005.857633     Document Type: Article

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