scholarly journals The post-warranty random maintenance policies for the product with random working cycles

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 726-735
Author(s):  
Lijun Shang ◽  
Haibin Wang ◽  
Cang Wu ◽  
Zhiqiang Cai
Keyword(s):  
Preventive Maintenance ◽  
Maintenance Policy ◽  
Cost Rate ◽  
Working Cycle ◽  
Maintenance Policies ◽  
Reliability Performance ◽  
The Cost

Advanced sensors and measuring technologies make it possible to monitor the product working cycle. This means the manufacturer’s warranty to ensure reliability performance can be designed by monitoring the product working cycle and the consumer’s post-warranty maintenance to sustain the post-warranty reliability can be modeled by tracking the product working cycle. However, the related works appear seldom in existing literature. In this article, we incorporate random working cycle into warranty and propose a novel warranty ensuring reliability performance of the product with random working cycles. By extending the proposed warranty to the post-warranty maintenance, besides we investigate the postwarranty random maintenance policies sustaining the post-warranty reliability, i.e., replacement last (first) with preventive maintenance (PM). The cost rate is constructed for each post-warranty random maintenance policy. Finally, sensitivity of proposed warranty and investigated polices is analyzed. We discover that replacement last (first) with PM is superior to replacement last (first).

scholarly journals The Optimal Warranty and Preventive Maintenance Policy for the Four-State System

2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmed F. Attia ◽  
Eman D. Abou Elela ◽  
Hany A. Hosham
Keyword(s):  
Steady State ◽  
Markov Process ◽  
Preventive Maintenance ◽  
State System ◽  
Maintenance Policy ◽  
Failure Times ◽  
Multistate System ◽  
Maintenance Policies ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Preventive Maintenance Policy

A complete view for the multistate system considering the four-state system is here introduced. The exponential distribution for failure times and repair times is considered. The steady state availability is established via the Markov process. Different warranty and preventive maintenance policies are introduced, and also the cost of these policies for the manufacturer and the buyer is evaluated.

A preventive maintenance of circular consecutive-k-out-of-n: F systems

2017 ◽  
Vol 34 (6) ◽  
pp. 752-769 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfonsus Julanto Endharta ◽  
Won Young Yun
Keyword(s):  
Preventive Maintenance ◽  
Continuous Monitoring ◽  
Maintenance Policy ◽  
Expected Cost ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Cost Rate ◽  
Minimal Cut ◽  
Cost Parameters ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Preventive Maintenance Policy

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop a preventive maintenance policy with continuous monitoring for a circular consecutive-k-out-of-n: F systems. A preventive maintenance policy is developed based on the system critical condition which is related to the number of working components in the minimal cut sets of the system. If there is at least one minimal cut set which consists of only one working component, the system is maintained preventively (PM) after a certain time interval and the failed components are replaced with the new ones to prevent the system failures. If the system fails prior to the preventive maintenance, the system is correctively maintained (CM) immediately by replacing the failed components. Design/methodology/approach The mathematical function of the expected cost rate for the proposed maintenance policy is derived. The costs of PM, CM, and replacement per component are considered. The optimal maintenance parameter, which is the PM interval, is obtained by enumeration, and the numerical studies are shown with various system and cost parameters. The performance of the proposed policy is evaluated by comparing its expected cost rate to those of the no-PM and age-PM policies. The percentage of cost increase from the no-PM and age-PM policies to the proposed PM policy is calculated and this value can represents how important the continuous monitoring in this policy. Findings The proposed policy outperforms other policies. When the cost of CM is high and the cost of PM is low, the proposed PM policy is more suitable. Research limitations/implications The system consists of identical components and the component failure times follow an exponential distribution. Continuous monitoring is considered, which means that the component states can be known at any time. Three cost parameters, cost of PM, CM, and replacement per component, are considered. Originality/value This paper shows a maintenance problem for circular consecutive-k-out-of-n: F systems. Many studies on this system type focused on the reliability estimation or system design problem. Previous study with this policy (Endharta and Yun, 2015) has been developed for linear systems, although the study used a simulation approach to estimate the expected cost rate. Also, Endharta et al. (2016) considered a similar method for the different types of system, which is linear consecutive-k-out-of-n: F system.

Availability analysis and maintenance optimization for multiple failure mode systems considering imperfect repair

2021 ◽  
pp. 1748006X2110127
Author(s):  
Qingan Qiu ◽  
Baoliang Liu ◽  
Cong Lin ◽  
Jingjing Wang
Keyword(s):  
Failure Modes ◽  
Maintenance Cost ◽  
Imperfect Maintenance ◽  
Maintenance Policy ◽  
Cost Rate ◽  
Availability Analysis ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Optimal Maintenance ◽  
Maintenance Policies ◽  
Periodic Inspections

This paper studies the availability and optimal maintenance policies for systems subject to competing failure modes under continuous and periodic inspections. The repair time distribution and maintenance cost are both dependent on the failure modes. We investigate the instantaneous availability and the steady state availability of the system maintained through several imperfect repairs before a replacement is allowed. Analytical expressions for system availability under continuous and periodic inspections are derived respectively. The availability models are then utilized to obtain the optimal inspection and imperfect maintenance policy that minimizes the average long-run cost rate. A numerical example for Remote Power Feeding System is presented to demonstrate the application of the developed approach.

Optimization of Leased Equipment Maintenance Policy Based on History Failure Data

2021 ◽  
pp. 2150030
Author(s):  
Ke Dong ◽  
Kehong Chen
Keyword(s):  
Power Law ◽  
Cost Model ◽  
Maintenance Strategy ◽  
Maintenance Policy ◽  
Power Law Process ◽  
Total Cost ◽  
Cost Rate ◽  
Failure Data ◽  
Expected Total Cost ◽  
The Cost

We propose a maintenance policy for new equipment on a repair-refund maintenance strategy in this paper and derive the optimal lease period from the lessor’s perspective based on independent and identical distribution of historical failure data which obey power law process. The cost model of a full refund and a proportional refund is studied, and the corresponding optimal leasing period is determined by reducing the expected total cost rate to the largest extent. We use a numerical example to illustrate the proposed cost model and analyze the sensitivity of related parameters. Furthermore, we show that the proportional refund policy is preferable than a full refund to the lessor. Finally, according to the simulation outcome, the proposed methods are effective and instructions for lessor in regard to equipment lease are provided.

On preventive maintenance policies: a selection framework

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Imad Alsyouf ◽  
Sadeque Hamdan ◽  
Mohammad Shamsuzzaman ◽  
Salah Haridy ◽  
Iyad Alawaysheh
Keyword(s):  
Preventive Maintenance ◽  
Fuzzy Ahp ◽  
Critical Component ◽  
Multi Objective Optimization ◽  
Maintenance Policy ◽  
Coolant Pump ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Multi Objective ◽  
Maintenance Policies ◽  
Preventive Maintenance Policy

PurposeThis paper develops a framework for selecting the most efficient and effective preventive maintenance policy using multiple-criteria decision making and multi-objective optimization.Design/methodology/approachThe critical component is identified with a list of maintenance policies, and then its failure data are collected and the optimization objective functions are defined. Fuzzy AHP is used to prioritize each objective based on the experts' questionnaire. Weighted comprehensive criterion method is used to solve the multi-objective models for each policy. Finally, the effectiveness and efficiency are calculated to select the best maintenance policy.FindingsFor a fleet of buses in hot climate environment where coolant pump is identified as the most critical component, it was found that block-GAN policy is the most efficient and effective one with a 10.24% of cost saving and 0.34 expected number of failures per cycle compared to age policy and block-BAO policy.Research limitations/implicationsOnly three maintenance policies are compared and studied. Other maintenance policies can also be considered in future.Practical implicationsThe proposed methodology is implemented in UAE for selecting a maintenance scheme for a critical component in a fleet of buses. It can be validated later in other Gulf countries.Originality/valueThis research lays a solid foundation for selecting the most efficient and effective preventive maintenance policy for different applications and sectors using MCDM and multi-objective optimization to improve reliability and avoid economic loss.

Sequential imperfect preventive maintenance policy with random maintenance quality under reliability limit

2011 ◽  
Vol 225 (8) ◽  
pp. 1926-1935 ◽  
Author(s):  
Z Wang ◽  
J Yang ◽  
G Wang ◽  
G Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Failure Rate ◽  
Preventive Maintenance ◽  
Average Cost ◽  
Numerical Control ◽  
Maintenance Policy ◽  
Cost Rate ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Optimal Maintenance ◽  
Average Cost Rate ◽  
Optimal Maintenance Policy

To determine the optimal maintenance number for a system with random maintenance quality in infinite time horizon, a sequential imperfect preventive maintenance model considering reliability limit is proposed. The proposed model is derived from the combination of the Kijima type virtual age model and the failure rate adjustment model. Maintenance intervals of the proposed model are obtained through an iteration method when both failure rate increase factor and maintenance restoration factor are random variables with a uniform distribution. The optimal maintenance policy is presented by minimizing the long-run average cost rate. A real numerical example for the failures of numerical control equipment is given to demonstrate the proposed model. Finally, a discussion is presented to show how the optimal average cost rate depends on the different cost parameters. The results show that in order to satisfy the practical requirements of high reliability, it is necessary and worthwhile to consider the system's reliability limit in preventive maintenance practice.

Penentuan Interval Waktu Pemeliharaan Pencegahan pada Peralatan Sub-Unit RKC 3 di PTX Pabrik Tuban

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fesa Putra Kristianto ◽  
Bobby O.P. Soepangkat
Keyword(s):  
Preventive Maintenance ◽  
Operating Time ◽  
Maintenance Cost ◽  
Time Interval ◽  
Maintenance Policy ◽  
Cost Rate ◽  
Total Labor ◽  
Finish Mill ◽  
Unit Plant ◽  
Reliability And Availability

PT X Tuban Plant has four plants (unit), namely Tuban I, Tuban II, Tuban III and Tuban IV. Each unit plant has three sub units, i.e., Crusher Operations Sub-Unit, Raw Mill, Kiln and Coal Mill (RKC) Sub-Unit and Finish Mill Sub-Unit. RKC 3 Sub-Unit in Tuban III has the highest number of equipment downtime and production loss. Therefore, it was necessary to optimize the time interval of preventive maintenance ( ) and total labor force as part of the company maintenance policy, would also fulfill the required reliability and availability of RKC 3 Sub-Unit. There were two steps in determining Tp optimum. The first step was to obtain the best distribution of the time between failures (TBF) and time to repair (TTR). The next step was to iterate the operating time (Ti) and Tp to determine the minimum preventive maintenance cost rate, reliability and maintainability.This iteration was applied to sub-units of RKC 3 that possesses a series system. Tp at the lowest rate of maintenance costs was the optimum Tp. The optimum Tp for RKC 3 Sub-Unit is 3743,28 hour. The preventive maintenance cost rate for optimum Tp is Rp33.100/hour and the reliability and availability of sub unit are 96,7% and 99,86% respectively.Keywords: reliability, availability, preventive maintenance cost rate, and preventive maintenance

scholarly journals Scheduling of Preventive Maintenance in Healthcare Buildings Using Markov Chain

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (15) ◽  
pp. 5263
Author(s):  
Jaime González-Domínguez ◽  
Gonzalo Sánchez-Barroso ◽  
Justo García-Sanz-Calcedo
Keyword(s):  
Markov Chain ◽  
Markov Chains ◽  
Preventive Maintenance ◽  
Operating Costs ◽  
Use Of Resources ◽  
Overall Efficiency ◽  
Maintenance Policies ◽  
Reduce Emissions ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Specific Degradation

The optimization of maintenance in healthcare buildings reduces operating costs and contributes towards increasing the sustainability of the healthcare system. This paper proposes a tool to schedule preventive maintenance for healthcare centers using Markov chains. To this end, the authors analyzed 25 healthcare centers belonging to the three Healthcare Districts of Spain and built between 1985 and 2005. Markov chains proved useful in choosing the most suitable maintenance policies for each healthcare building without exceeding a specific degradation boundary, which enabled achieving an ideal maintenance frequency and reduced the use of resources. Markov chains have also proven useful in optimizing the periodicity of routine maintenance tasks, ensuring a suitable level of maintenance according to the frequency of the failures and reducing the cost and carbon footprint. The healthcare centers observed during the study managed to save more than 700 km of journeys, reduce emissions in its operations as a whole by 174.3 kg of CO2 per month and increase the overall efficiency of maintenance operations by 15%. This approach, therefore, renders it advisable to plan the maintenance of healthcare buildings.

scholarly journals Optimization of the maintenance planning of a multi-component system

2018 ◽  
Vol 200 ◽  
pp. 00011
Author(s):  
Issam Mallouk ◽  
Badr Abou El Majd ◽  
Yves Sallez
Keyword(s):  
High Reliability ◽  
Maintenance Planning ◽  
Multi Objective Optimization ◽  
Maintenance Policy ◽  
Swarm Optimization ◽  
Multiobjective Particle Swarm Optimization ◽  
Maintenance Policies ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The Mathematical Model ◽  
Multi Component System

The vehicle’s maintenance costs, uptime and security are the most important goals for owners and transport companies, but these goals are conflictual and the major cause for delays is related to the maintenance policies. The main objective of transporters is to respond properly to their customer’s demands. In order to deal with this competitiveness, transport companies are working to improve the management of their fleets by focusing in particular on vehicle maintenance, which impact the vehicles uptime, and generate the most important cost. In addition, a vehicle maintenance policy aims to avoid failures and keep the vehicle up and safe. This objective is reached by ensuring a high reliability; otherwise, an unexpected failure of a component can cause vehicle down and can affect the entire sub-system while generating costs. In this paper, we propose a new maintenance policy based on multi-objective optimization. This problem is solved using the Speed-Constrained Multiobjective Particle Swarm Optimization (SMPSO) for an instance of 18 components and 20 vehicles. First, we give an overview of the existing techniques used for vehicle’s maintenance policy, then we present the mathematical model that describes the cost of maintenance and the level of safety. Numerical experiments are presented to demonstrate the efficiency of our approach.

A STOCHASTIC MODEL FOR HYBRID MAINTENANCE POLICIES EVALUATION AND OPTIMIZATION

2001 ◽  
Vol 08 (03) ◽  
pp. 233-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
BRUNO CASTANIER ◽  
ANTOINE GRALL ◽  
CHRISTOPHE BÉRENGUER
Keyword(s):  
Stochastic Process ◽  
Stochastic Model ◽  
Average Cost ◽  
Numerical Experiments ◽  
System State ◽  
Maintenance Policy ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Running Cost ◽  
Maintenance Policies ◽  
The Cost

We propose a hybrid maintenance policy which combines periodic (age-based or time-based) regulation-based inspections with aperiodic condition-based inspection/replacements for a stochastically and gradually deteriorating system. The stationary laws of the deterioration state of the maintained system are derived in order to evaluate the long-run average running cost on an infinite span generated by the proposed combined policy. A computable expression of the average cost is established using the regenerative or semi-regenerative properties of the stochastic process describing the maintained system state. The behavior of the proposed maintenance is illustrated through numerical experiments and it is shown that the cost incurred by the optimized combined policy is lower than the cost generated by the regulation-based maintenance alone.

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