Deterioration state space partitioning method for opportunistic maintenance modelling of identical multi-unit systems

Xiaohong Zhang and Jianchao Zeng

International Journal of Production Research, 2015, vol. 53, issue 7, 2100-2118

Abstract: We propose a deterioration state space partitioning method for opportunistic maintenance modelling of identical multi-unit systems with economic dependence. The proposed method presents a common description and model for multi-unit systems with identical units based on the mutual characteristics of opportunistic maintenance models with different maintenance strategies. In the method, all possible maintenance combinations of general multi-unit systems with a known number of identical units at each maintenance decision point and their corresponding probabilities are deduced on the basis of analysis of the scenarios of multi-unit systems with one, two and three units. Further, we develop a general representation of the stationary law of unit deterioration and its numerical solution. Numerical experiments verify the correctness of our deterioration state space partitioning method and its numerical solution. The proposed method is applicable to both single-unit and multi-unit systems, and provides a new generalised modelling method for maintenance optimisation of multi-unit systems with identical units.

Date: 2015
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