A degradation model for maintenance improvement in respect of cost and availability

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to highlight the need for degradation data in order to improve the reliability and the mean residual life estimation of a specific item of equipment and to adapt the preventive maintenance tasks accordingly. Design/methodology/approach – An initial reliability model which uses a degradation-based reliability model that is built from the collection of hitting times of a failure threshold. The proposed maintenance model is based on the cost/availability criterion. The estimation of both reliability and optimum time for preventive maintenance are updated with all new degradation data that are collected during operating time. Findings – An improvement for the occurrences of maintenance tasks which minimizes the mean cost per unit of time and increases the availability. Practical implications – Inspection tasks to measure the degradation level should be realized at least one time for each item of equipment at a specific time determined by the proposed methodology. Origina...

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