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Opportunistic preventive maintenance optimization for multi-unit series systems with combing multi-preventive maintenance techniques

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This paper proposes a dynamic opportunistic preventive maintenance (PM) optimization policy for multi-unit series systems by integrating multi PM techniques. Two PM techniques, periodic PM and sequential PM, are considered. Whenever one of the units reaches its reliability threshold, a PM action has to be performed on that unit. At that time the whole system has to be stopped and PM opportunities arise for the other units of the system. An optimal PM practice is determined by maximizing the short-term cumulative opportunistic maintenance (OM) cost savings for the whole system. Numerical examples are given to show how this approach works. Finally, a comparison between the proposed PM policy and the other policies is given.

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  1. Department of Industrial Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, 200240, China

    Xiao-jun Zhou  (周晓军), Zhi-qiang Lu  (陆志强) & Li-feng Xi  (奚立峰)

  2. University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati OH, Ohio, 45221-0072, USA

    Jay Lee  (李 杰)

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Foundation item: the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 50905115 and 70771065), the National High Technology Research and Development Program (863) of China (Nos. 2009AA043403, 2009AA043000 and 2008042801), and the Shanghai Natural Science Foundation (No. 09ZR1414400)

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Zhou, Xj., Lu, Zq., Xi, Lf. et al. Opportunistic preventive maintenance optimization for multi-unit series systems with combing multi-preventive maintenance techniques. J. Shanghai Jiaotong Univ. (Sci.) 15, 513–518 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12204-010-1042-y

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