Optimal inspection and preventive maintenance policy for systems with self-announcing and non-self-announcing failures

Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 34-45

  Chelbi, Anis ^a   Ait Kadi, Daoud ^b   Aloui, Houda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TUNIS   (Tunisia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Failure (mechanical); Inspection; Preventive maintenance

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMAL SYSTEMS; PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE; RANDOM PROCESSES; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

OPTIMAL STRATEGY; RANDOMLY FAILING SYSTEMS; STATIONARY AVAILABILITY; UNIQUENESS;

COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY;

EID: 41749120499     PISSN: 13552511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13552510810861923     Document Type: Article

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