A generalized periodic preventive maintenance model with virtual age for a system subjected to shocks

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 39, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 2379-2393

  Sheu, Shey Huei ^a,b   Chang, Chin Chih ^b   Chen, Yen Luan ^c  

^a PROVIDENCE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^c TAKMING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Maintenance; Minimal repair; Optimization; Replacement policy; Virtual age

Indexed keywords

DEPENDENT FAILURE; EXPECTED COSTS; INFINITE TIME HORIZON; MINIMAL REPAIR; NON HOMOGENEOUS POISSON PROCESS; PERIODIC PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE; RANDOM SHOCKS; REPLACEMENT POLICY; VIRTUAL AGE;

OPTIMIZATION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE;

REPAIR;

EID: 77954041261     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: 1532415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610921003778142     Document Type: Conference Paper

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