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MAINTENANCE OPTIMIZATION OF EQUIPMENT BY LINEAR PROGRAMMING

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 December 2005

Archana Jayakumar  and
Sohrab Asgarpoor
Archana Jayakumar
Affiliation:
Midwest ISO, Carmel, IN 46032
Sohrab Asgarpoor
Affiliation:
Electrical Engineering Department, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588-0511, E-mail: sasgarpoor1@unl.edu
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Abstract

Optimal levels of preventive maintenance performed on any system ensures cost-effective and reliable operation of the system. In this paper a component with deterioration and random failure is modeled using Markov processes while incorporating the concept of minor and major preventive maintenance. The optimal mean times to preventive maintenance (both minor and major) of the component is determined by maximizing its availability with respect to mean time to preventive maintenance. Mathematical optimization programs Maple 7 and Lingo 7 are used to find the optimal solution, which is illustrated using a numerical example. Further, an optimal maintenance policy is obtained using Markov Decision Processes (MDPs). Linear Programming (LP) is utilized to implement the MDP problem.

Type
Research Article
Information
Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , January 2006 , pp. 183 - 193
Copyright
© 2006 Cambridge University Press

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