Impact of few failure data on the opportunistic replacement policy for multi-component systems

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 108-119

  Laggoune, Radouane ^a   Chateauneuf, Alaa ^b   Aissani, Djamil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BEJAIA   (Algeria)

^b Polytech'Clermont Ferrand   (France)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Data uncertainty; Monte Carlo simulations; Multi component system; Opportunistic maintenance

Indexed keywords

BOOTSTRAP; DATA UNCERTAINTY; MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS; MULTI-COMPONENT SYSTEM; OPPORTUNISTIC MAINTENANCE;

COST REDUCTION; MAINTAINABILITY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPERATING COSTS; PETROLEUM REFINERIES; PROFITABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES; RANDOM VARIABLES; SIMULATORS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 70350752291     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2009.08.007     Document Type: Article

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