This 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 Nth 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.
Bada and Berrade REF deal with a bivariate policy for a system subject to non-self announcing failures and periodic inspections.
Optimum Maintenance Policy of a Periodically Inspected System under Imperfect Repair
Adv. Operations Research
Adv. Operations Research
Computer Science Mathematics