 System repairs: When to perform and what to do?Diederik Lugtigheid, Dragan Banjevic and Andrew K.S. Jardine Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 2008, vol. 93, issue 4, 604-615 Abstract: In this paper an indicator is used that reflects the “state†of a system as a function of the ages of the (groups of) subsystems of which it consists. The contribution of the ages of the subsystems to the state of the system is defined by their weights. The indicator can be interpreted as the virtual age of the system, and can therefore be used to define age-reduction factors of different types of repair in a virtual age or age-reduction process. The state indicator is used as the time scale in a proportional intensity model. In this way, the joint impact of different repair strategies and covariates on the system failure intensity can be evaluated. This relationship is then used to address the question of which subsystems to replace whenever a system comes in for repair and when to set the preventive inspection/repair interval, in order to minimize the expected costs per unit time until the next inspection and/or repair. A numerical and a practical example are given. Keywords: Repairable system; Multi-component system; Degree of repair; Proportional intensity; Virtual age; Accumulated intensity (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:reensy:v:93:y:2008:i:4:p:604-615 DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2007.03.023 Access Statistics for this article Reliability Engineering and System Safety is currently edited by Carlos Guedes Soares More articles in Reliability Engineering and System Safety from Elsevier |
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