Optimal maintenance policy and residual life estimation for a slowly degrading system subject to condition monitoring

Diyin Tang, Viliam Makis, Leila Jafari and Jinsong Yu

Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 2015, vol. 134, issue C, 198-207

Abstract: In this paper, we present an optimal preventive maintenance policy and develop a procedure for residual life estimation for a slowly degrading system subject to soft failure and condition monitoring at equidistant, discrete time epochs. An autoregressive model with time effect is considered to describe the system degradation, which utilizes both the system current age and the previous state observations. The class of control-limit maintenance policies with two different inspection strategies is considered, and the optimization problem is formulated and solved in a semi-Markov decision process framework. The objective is to minimize the long-run expected average cost. A formula for the mean residual life is derived for the proposed degradation model and a control limit policy, which enables the estimation of the remaining useful life and early maintenance planning based on the observed degradation process. An example is presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.

Keywords: Condition monitoring; Preventive maintenance; Semi-Markov decision process; Autoregressive model with time effect; Control-limit policy; Residual life estimation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2014.10.015

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