A model is proposed to study the inspection and maintenance policy of systems whose failures can be detected only by periodic tests or inspections. Using predictive techniques, the time of the system failure can be predicted for some failure modes. If the system is found failed in an inspection, a corrective maintenance action is carried out. If the system is in a good condition but the predictive test diagnoses a failure in the period until the next inspection, then the system is replaced. The cost rate function is obtained for general distribution function of the signal time of a future failure and for one specific distribution function recently proposed. An algorithm is presented to find the optimal time between inspections and predictive tests and the optimal system replacement times for an age replacement policy. Numerical experiments illustrate the model.
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