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A novel opportunistic maintenance strategy for systems with dependent main and auxiliary components
- Source :
- IMA Journal of Management Mathematics. 32:69-90
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Oxford University Press (OUP), 2020.
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Abstract
- The complexity of dependence between different types of components results in many challenges to estimate system reliability and to optimize maintenance plans. In this paper, we develop a reliability model to study the failure dependence of a system with a main component and several protective auxiliary components. Damage to the main component caused by random environmental shocks depends on the number of auxiliary components in operation. When the execution of inspection and maintenance actions during system operation is difficult, failures of the main component provide opportunities to inspect and replace the auxiliary components. We derive the system reliability using Laplace transforms and the matrix method. The optimization problem is solved by an enumeration method. A numerical example and sensitivity studies of cost parameters show how the evolution of the parameters influences the optimal maintenance strategy. The results show that a high replacement threshold of the auxiliary components is required when the replacement cost of the main component is high. Conversely, the threshold could be adjusted to a lower level when the replacement cost of the auxiliary components and the downtime cost increase.
- Subjects :
- 0209 industrial biotechnology
Computer science
Applied Mathematics
Strategy and Management
020208 electrical & electronic engineering
Maintenance strategy
02 engineering and technology
Management Science and Operations Research
Management Information Systems
020901 industrial engineering & automation
Risk analysis (engineering)
Modeling and Simulation
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
General Economics, Econometrics and Finance
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Details
- ISSN :
- 14716798 and 1471678X
- Volume :
- 32
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- IMA Journal of Management Mathematics
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........eb76e291d6d900c3fcf1afc3a41d3026