Recent Advances in Selective Maintenance from 1998 to 2014

The selective maintenance is a new branch and significant breakthrough of reliability and maintenance theory.In the original selective maintenance problem,a subset of maintenance activities is performed on selected components during the finite break so that the system is able to maximize the next mission reliability.It is a fast growing research field over the past ten years,in which a variety of mathematical models and solution methodology have been proposed for dealing with more complex and significant problems.An overview of some recent advances in selective maintenance modeling and treatment methods is provided in this paper.A number of challenges that can be undertaken to help move the field forward are also discussed according to the current state of the selective maintenance approach.