Compromise: An effective approach for condition-based maintenance management of gas turbines

A decision-based approach to condition-based maintenance management of rotating machinery is introduced and illustrated by formulating and solving a multiple objective maintenance management problem for a 15MW industrial gas turbine. The compromise Decision Support Problem approach is used because it provides a convenient way of incorporating both information from condition monitoring and considerations of factors such as machine degradation, operating cost (fuel cost), production loss, maintenance cost, environmental protection, machine availability, etc. The focus in this paper is on explaining the approach rather than on the results per se.