Graphical Techniques for Maintenance Planning.

Abstract

Items subject to stochastic failure are candidates for preventive maintenance where often an item is replaced or restored to a good-as-new condition. For single component items, the optimal interval for this type of preventive maintenance might be determined via some mathematical model of replacement. Usually, these models require knowledge of the failure distribution as well as the costs of preventive and corrective maintenance. For most problems there is considerable uncertainty as to the appropriateness of a failure model. Bergman and others have espoused graphical techniques for the Age Replacement model which do not require specification of the failure model. This dissertation proposes several graphical techniques for two other replacement models, Block Replacement and one called Blind Replacement.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 17, 1986
Accession Number
ADA166406

Entities

People

  • Carlos M. Talbott Jr

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Composite Materials
  • Computational Science
  • Computer Graphics
  • Data Science
  • Estimators
  • Information Science
  • Life Tests
  • Maintenance
  • Monte Carlo Method
  • Operations Research
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Preventive Maintenance
  • Random Variables
  • Standards
  • Statistical Algorithms
  • Statistical Inference
  • Statistics

Readers

  • Logistics and Supply Chain Management.
  • Statistical inference.