OPTIMAL MAINTENANCE POLICY TO SUPPORT THE OPERATION OF MANUFACTURING WITH MINIMAL AND DELAYED REPAIR

This work presents a periodic preventive maintenance (PM) model for a repairable system that undergoes minimal repair or delayed repair at each failure to keep a plant operating. Two PM types are performed, i.e. imperfect PM and perfect PM. The likelihood that PM is perfect depends on the number of imperfect maintenance activities have been performed since the last renewal cycle. Mathematical formulae for expected cost per unit time are developed. The optimal period for periodic PM, which minimizes cost, is identified. Various special cases are considered, including the maintenance learning effect. A numerical example demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed model.