Conditionally Independent Generalized Competing Risks for Maintenance Analysis

A complex repairable system is subjected to corrective maintenance (CM) and condition-based preventive maintenance (PM) actions. In order to take into account both the dependency between PM and CM and the possibility of imperfect maintenances, a generalized competing risks model have been introduced in [5]. In this paper, we study the particular case for which the potential times to next PM and CM are independent conditionally to the past of the maintenance process. We address the identifiability issue and find a result similar to that of [2] for usual competing risks. We propose a realistic model with exponential risks and derive the maximum likelihood estimators of its parameters.