The preventive maintenance policy for a two-component series system with delay repair

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  • 1. School of Economics and Management, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China; 2. College of Science, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao 066004, Hebei, China

Received date: 2016-10-28

  Online published: 2018-12-15

Abstract

In this paper, we study the preventive maintenance policy for a two-component series system. When the working time of the system reaches T, the system will be preventive repaired. The preventive maintenance restores every component to the state which is the same as the last failure repair. When the failure occurs, the repair may be delayed for every component. The successive survival times of the component form a stochastically decreasing geometric process and the consecutive repair times after component failures form a stochastically increasing geometric process. We look for a bivariate policy (T,N), which T is the working time of the system before preventive maintenance, N is the failure time of the component before replacement. By using the renewal process theory and geometric process theory, the explicit expression of the long-run expected cost per unit time is derived. Finally, a numerical example is given.

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GAO Qiaoqiao, YUE Dequan, ZHAO Bing . The preventive maintenance policy for a two-component series system with delay repair[J]. Operations Research Transactions, 2018 , 22(4) : 69 -78 . DOI: 10.15960/j.cnki.issn.1007-6093.2018.04.006

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