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Burn-in and Maintenance Policies

Part of: Special processes Survival analysis and censored data

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2016

Jie Mi
Jie Mi*
Affiliation:
Florida International University
*
* Postal address: Department of Statistics, Florida International University, University Park, Miami, FL 33199, USA.
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Abstract

Burn-in is a widely used method to improve quality of products after they have been produced. For a repairable component there are two common types of repair, complete repair and minimal repair. Preventive maintenance policies such as age replacement and block replacement are often employed in field operation. The present paper takes burn-in, maintenance and repair into consideration at the same time and considers related cost structures. The properties of the corresponding optimal burn-in times and optimal maintenance policies are discussed.

Keywords

BATHTUB-SHAPED FAILURE RATECOMPLETE REPAIRMINIMAL REPAIRAGE REPLACEMENTBLOCK REPLACEMENT

MSC classification

Primary: 60K10: Applications (reliability, demand theory, etc.)
Secondary: 62N05: Reliability and life testing
Type
General Applied Probability
Information
Advances in Applied Probability , Volume 26 , Issue 1 , March 1994 , pp. 207 - 221
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1994 

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