MAINTENANCE POLICIES FOR STOCHASTICALLY FAILING EQUIPEMENT. A SURVEY,
Abstract
The practical need for subtle and delicate maintenance policies has stimulated theoretical interest and in many cases has led to the development of policies that possess theoretical novelty and practical importance. The wide range of mathematical techniques utilized in this development process together with the diversity of the applications has sometimes obscured the underlying structure that is common to all these policies. The primary purpose of the survey is to identify this common structure and thereby clarify the relationships existing among the various main tenance policies. With this clarification in mind, it is hoped that the survey will provide a convenient introduction to the problems of scheduling maintenance for equipment subject to stochastic failure. The second purpose of the paper is to identify both the boundary separating scheduling problems that have been solved from interesting scheduling problems awaiting solution and the boundary separating theoretical solutions already available from applications of these solutions to practical problems. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jul 01, 1964
- Accession Number
- AD0603352
Entities
People
- J. J. Mccall
Organizations
- RAND Corporation