| Article ID: | iaor20103762 |
| Volume: | 93 |
| Issue: | 8 |
| Start Page Number: | 1138 |
| End Page Number: | 1150 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2008 |
| Journal: | Reliability Engineering and System Safety |
| Authors: | Ming Tan Cher, Raghavan Nagarajan |
A simple practical framework for predictive maintenance (PdM)-based scheduling of multi-state systems (MSS) is developed. The maintenance schedules are derived from a system-perspective using the failure times of the overall system as estimated from its performance degradation trends.