Optimum opportunistic maintenance schedule over variable horizons considering multi-stage degradation and dynamic strategy

Gehui Liu, Shaokuan Chen, Tinkin Ho, Xinchen Ran, Baohua Mao and Zhen Lan

Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 2022, vol. 225, issue C

Abstract: A suitable maintenance schedule is crucial for large-scale, complex multi-component systems undertaking a long-term operation to reduce failure risks and improve availability and profitability. Opportunistic maintenance is a popular solution when cost consideration is paramount. However, the extensively adopted single-level preventive maintenance action and single-stage degradation process limit the development and application of opportunistic maintenance. Multi-level preventive maintenance including both perfect and imperfect maintenance actions on multi-stage degradation is considered within an opportunistic model to address this challenge. A reliability evaluation model is first formulated to describe a multi-stage degradation process involving the effect of imperfect maintenance. An opportunistic model is then proposed to arrange reliability proportion thresholds for components in systems. The cost rate is considered as the objective function to accommodate the opportunistic model to variable scheduling horizons. A flexible dynamic strategy is developed within the opportunistic model to coordinate the schedules on the system and components by updating component schedules once a system maintenance action is executed. An improved hybrid genetic algorithm combining differential evolution is adopted to optimize the complex problem. The case studies on a locomotive system provide a better understanding of the proposed models and demonstration of its effectiveness, generality, and robustness.

Keywords: Opportunistic maintenance; Multi-stage deterioration; Reliability evaluation; Dynamic strategy; Imperfect maintenance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2022.108572

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