Checking policy for deteriorating multistate systems

Janusz Karpiński

Naval Research Logistics (NRL), 1988, vol. 35, issue 2, 259-268

Abstract: In this article a multistate system under some checking policy is considered. The system has n + 1 states: 0,1, …,n, and deteriorates gradually. State 0 is a normal (full capacity) state and states 1, …,n are considered unsatisfactory. Transition from state 0 to state 1 is considered a system failure. This failure can be detected only through checking, which entails a fixed cost c. The holding time in the undiscovered state i (i = 1, …,n) results in cost di per unit of time. For such a system, the algorithm of determining optimum checking times is given.

Date: 1988
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