On three competing maintenance actions and the related condition control (Q764459)

Summary: This paper considers three competing maintenance actions: correction after failure, condition-based prevention to avoid failure, and schedules. A stochastic model is set for the time relationship between corrective and preventive maintenances. This model defines a version of the so-called random signs censoring, and leads to natural goodness measures for condition control. The effect of condition control on important observable and unobservable indicators is studied. The latter half of the paper considers static Weibull models for the time to failure and the effect of condition control; the main contribution is a calculation method that derives the four model parameters from four figures of the input data. Corresponding parameter experimentation is demonstrated on maintenance cost analysis and condition control design.