| Article ID: | iaor200969138 |
| Volume: | 2009 |
| Issue: | 691203 |
| Start Page Number: | 1 |
| End Page Number: | 13 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2009 |
| Journal: | Advances in Operations Research |
| Authors: | Badia F G, Berrade M D |
| Keywords: | inspection |
his paper deals with the maintenance policy of a system subject to periodical inspections aimed at detecting the occurrence of failures. After the first N−1 failure, the system undergoes an imperfect repair that brings the system back to the operating condition while the N th failure is followed by a perfect repair restoring the unit to an as-good-as-new condition. The limiting average availability as well as the minimum cost policy are discussed.