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When we choose a preventive maintenance scheme, we are usually interested in selecting the maintenance parameters, e.g. the maintenance period, in the “best” possible way. To do this, we need to compare the expressions for mean (expected) costs or rewards for various maintenance periods. Our first task is to learn how to write expressions for these costs or rewards. We will need some basics from the renewal theory.
When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change
Viscount Lucius Cary Falkland
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it
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Gertsbakh, I. (2005). Preventive Maintenance Models Based on the Lifetime Distribution. In: Reliability Theory. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04236-6_4
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