RELIABILITY ANALYSIS OF MACHINING CENTER BASED ON THE FIELD DATA

Machining center is the complex machinery, with high level automation and complicated structures, so there are lots of failures. When a random failure occurs, the failed machining center stops and causes a production line or even the whole workshop to stop functioning. The frequent failure leads to the low levels of reliability and production rate. In order to help users and manufacturers optimize maintenance policy to improve the reliability for machining center, this paper presents descriptive statistics of the failure data and develops the failure trend using power-law process, simultaneously establishes the routine inspection and regular inspection as well as the sequential preventive maintenance under maintenance cost constraints. The proposed model could be a useful tool to assess the current conditions, predict reliability and optimize the machining center maintenance policy.