Article ID: | iaor20071631 |
Country: | Germany |
Volume: | 35 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 261 |
End Page Number: | 279 |
Publication Date: | Oct 2006 |
Journal: | Computational Optimization and Applications |
Authors: | Bartholomew-Biggs Michael, Christianson Bruce, Zuo Ming |
Keywords: | scheduling |
We deal with the problem of scheduling preventive maintenance (PM) for a system so that, over its operating life, we minimize a performance function which reflects repair and replacement costs as well as the costs of the PM itself. It is assumed that a hazard rate model is known which predicts the frequency of system failure as a function of age. It is also assumed that each PM produces a step reduction in the effective age of the system. We consider some variations and extensions of a PM scheduling approach proposed by Lin