Age-based preventive maintenance for coherent systems with applications to consecutive-k-out-of-n and related systems

Abstract This article presents a signature-based representation for the expected cost rate of age-based preventive maintenance policy for a binary coherent system consisting of independent exponential components, and then specializes the method to consecutive k-out-of-n system and its generalizations. According to the age-based preventive maintenance policy, the system is replaced at failure or before failure. For an arbitrary coherent system, the number of failed components at replacement time is a random variable. Thus, the expected cost per unit of time involves the mean number of failed components at replacement time. This mean is represented in terms of signature. Extensive numerical and graphical examples are presented for m-consecutive k-out-of-n:F and consecutive-k-within-m-out-of-n:F systems.

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