TTT plotting and maintenance policies

Quality Engineering

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 229-235

  Klefsjö, Bengt ^a,b,c   Westberg, Ulf ^a,b  

^a LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Age replacement policy; Graphical methods; Maintenance; Optimal replacement age; Total time on test; TTT plot; TTT transform

Indexed keywords

EID: 6144272605     PISSN: 08982112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08982119608919039     Document Type: Article

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