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Opportunistic maintenance of multi‐equipment system: a case study
Author(s) -
Rao A. Neelakanteswara,
Bhadury B.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
quality and reliability engineering international
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.913
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1099-1638
pISSN - 0748-8017
DOI - 10.1002/1099-1638(200011/12)16:6<487::aid-qre353>3.0.co;2-q
Subject(s) - preventive maintenance , reliability engineering , proactive maintenance , computer science , series (stratigraphy) , operations research , engineering , operations management , risk analysis (engineering) , business , paleontology , biology
A case study on preventive maintenance (PM) of a multi‐equipment system is presented in this paper. Each equipment of the system consists of many components/subsystems connected in series. Because of the series structure, opportunistic maintenance (OM) policies are more effective for the components of the equipment. A new OM policy based on the classification of opportunities has been proposed. Various OM policies have been evaluated using simulation modeling, and the new policy has been found to be more effective than the existing OM policies. The impact of this policy on the overall system has also been simulated. Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.