Age replacement policy in a random environment using systemability

International Journal of Systems Science

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1383-1397

  Persona, Alessandro ^a   Pham, Hoang ^b   Sgarbossa, Fabio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

age replacement policy; operational environments; preventive maintenance; reliability; systemability; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

AGE REPLACEMENT POLICY; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; MAINTENANCE POLICY; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS; PREVENTIVE ACTION; RANDOM ENVIRONMENT; SYSTEMABILITY; WEIBULL;

WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 77957800285     PISSN: 00207721     EISSN: 14645319     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207720903353617     Document Type: Article

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