On the interaction between maintenance, spare part inventories and repair capacity for a k-out-of-N system with wear-out
European Journal of Operational ResearchPublished 15 April 2005
Karin S. de Smidt-Destombes, Matthieu C. van der Heijden, Aart van Harten
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This paper considers a k-out-of-N system with identical, repairable components under a condition-based maintenance policy and presents two approximate methods to analyse the relation between these control variables and the system availability.
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In this paper we consider a k-out-of-N system with identical, repairable components under a condition-based maintenance policy. Maintenance consists of replacing all failed and/or aged components. Next, the replaced components have to be repaired. The system availability can be controlled by the maintenance policy, the spare part inventory level, the repair capacity and repair job priority setting. We present two approximate methods to analyse the relation between these control variables and the system availability. Comparison with simulation results shows that we can generate accurate approximations using one of these models, depending on the system size.
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