Optimization for condition-based maintenance with semi-Markov decision process

Dongyan Chen and Kishor S. Trivedi

Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 2005, vol. 90, issue 1, 25-29

Abstract: The semi-Markov decision model is a powerful tool in analyzing sequential decision processes with random decision epochs. In this paper, we have built the semi-Markov decision process (SMDP) for the maintenance policy optimization of condition-based preventive maintenance problems, and have presented the approach for joint optimization of inspection rate and maintenance policy. Through numerical examples, the improvement of this method is compared with the scheme, which optimizes only over the inspection rate. We also find that under a special case when the deterioration rate at each failure stage is the same, the optimal policy obtained by SMDP algorithm is a dynamic threshold-type scheme with threshold value depending on the inspection rate.

Keywords: Preventive maintenance; Reliability; Availability; Markov decision process; Optimization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2004.11.001

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