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Reliability with preventive maintenance

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A system is generally required to undergo preventive maintenance in addition to the irregular repairs in order to prevent frequent failures. This paper aims to study the analytic behaviour of a system with preventive maintenance. System is assumed to undergo preventive maintenance after everyM number of failures. After each preventive maintenance the system regenerates and a new cycle starts again. It may be noted that the supplementary variable technique developed byKielson andKooharian andCox has been employed to obtain the solutions when all the distributions follow different general laws.

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    D. K. Kulshrestha

  2. School of Mathematical Sciences, The Flinders University of South Australia, Bedford Park, South Australia, Australia

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Kulshrestha, D.K. Reliability with preventive maintenance. Metrika 19, 216–226 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01893298

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