Letter to the Editor---Optimum Preventive Maintenance Policies when Immediate Detection of Failure is Uncertain

G. C. Noonan and C. G. Fain
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G. C. Noonan: Technical Operations, Inc., Burlington, Massachusetts
C. G. Fain: Technical Operations, Inc., Burlington, Massachusetts

Operations Research, 1962, vol. 10, issue 3, 407-410

Abstract: The purpose of this note is to develop the preventive maintenance schedule that will optimize system performance when immediate detection or repair of failures cannot be assured. Under these conditions it will be shown that, even for exponential failure rates, optimum preventive maintenance schedules exist.

Date: 1962
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