Imperfect Preventive-Maintenance

Toshio Nakagawa

IEEE Transactions on Reliability · 1979 · 72 citations · 13 references

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Abstract

This paper considers a periodic preventive maintenance (pm) policy with ``minimal repair'' at failure; pm is imperfect. A special case of failure (hazard) rate improvement is postulated wherein pm reduces the failure rate, but does not return the time origin all the way to zero.

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