Modelling a flexible two-phase inspection-maintenance policy for safety-critical systems considering revised and non-revised inspections

A.R. Alberti, W.A. Ferreira Neto, C.A.V. Cavalcante and A.C.J. Santos

Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 2022, vol. 221, issue C

Abstract: This paper presents a flexible two-phase inspection and maintenance policy that has been designed for safety-critical systems to prevent failures that can have serious consequences. The proposed policy comprises two phases: the first guides inspections with a constant frequency and the second guides inspections with varying time intervals. Two delay-time-based mathematical models are presented. Model 1 concerns a case where an in-house inspection team has autonomy to perform the component replacement, and Model 2 concerns a case where a specialized team (often outsourced) is responsible for the replacements. A numerical application is presented, and the results showed that the proposed policy, when compared to its simpler variability: (i) always performs better in terms of cost-rate; (ii) has an even greater impact on reducing the rate of operational failures; (iii) is less sensitive to variations in the parameters of inspection, quality; (iv) tends to respond better to uncertainties in the estimation of the model parameters. Furthermore, a comparison between the results obtained applying the two models shows that the inspection-revised policy with maintenance outsourcing is advantageous when in-house team interventions can result in installation errors with a negative impact on the system's reliability.

Keywords: Safety-critical system; Flexible maintenance policy; Inspection; Quality; Delay-time modelling; Maintenance outsourcing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2021.108309

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