Age-Based Replacement Policy With Consideration of Production Wait Time

作者：Li, Ping^*; Wang, Wenbin^*; Peng, Rui^*

来源：IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 2016, 65(1): 235-247.

DOI：10.1109/TR.2015.2454507

• Age-based replacement
• downtime
• production wait
• threshold

In this paper, we consider the replacement of a unit that is subject to a dominant failure mode. The unit is usually replaced by an age-based replacement policy, either when a preset age limit has been reached, or when failure occurs before this limit. However, the unit can also be replaced when it encounters a random production wait and its age has reached a certain threshold. Using such an opportunity for replacement can help to minimize system downtime. We formulate this joint age-based replacement limit and threshold optimization problem with the objective of minimizing the expected cost per unit time in the long run. A real-data example is presented to illustrate the applicability and effectiveness of our model.

• 出版日期2016-3
• 单位北京科技大学