| Article ID: | iaor20031785 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Volume: | 53 |
| Issue: | 12 |
| Start Page Number: | 1380 |
| End Page Number: | 1384 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2002 |
| Journal: | Journal of the Operational Research Society |
| Authors: | Christer A.H., Jia X |
| Keywords: | quality & reliability |
In this paper, the functional check task specified in reliability-centred maintenance (RCM) is discussed and a general cost model under the assumption of a non-decreasing degradation process is established to jointly optimise the threshold of potential failure and inspection intervals to minimise the expected operating cost per unit time. A gamma process is used to describe a random wear degradation process and illustrate the model.