JOINT MAINTENANCE AND SPARE COMPONENT PROVISIONING POLICY FOR k-OUT-OF-n SYSTEMS

Liangpeng Chen (), Zhi-Sheng Ye () and Min Xie ()
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Liangpeng Chen: Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, National University of Singapore, 1 Engineering Drive 2, Singapore 117576, Singapore
Zhi-Sheng Ye: Department of Applied Mathematics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Min Xie: Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong

Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research (APJOR), 2013, vol. 30, issue 06, 1-21

Abstract: This study develops an analytic framework for joint modeling of age-based preventive maintenance and (s, Q) spare component provisioning policy for k-out-of-n:G systems with i.i.d. nonrepairable components. We assume that during system maintenance, instead of discarding the whole system, only failed components are replaced by spares if the on-handspares are sufficient. The objective is to determine a proper preventive maintenance interval and the ordering parameters to minimize the undiscounted long run average cost under a system availability constraint. Our study sheds light on the lumpy demand scenario in the problems of joint modeling of preventive maintenance and spare provisioning.

Keywords: Age-based preventive maintenance; long run average cost; semi-Markov chain; spare part provisioning; system availability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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