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Which Replacement Is Better at Working Cycles or Number of Failures

Satoshi MIZUTANI, Xufeng ZHAO, Toshio NAKAGAWA

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Summary :

When a unit repeats some works over again and undergoes minimal repairs at failures, it is more practical to replace it preventively at the end of working cycles or at its failure times. In this case, it would be an interesting problem to know which is better to replace the unit at a number of working cycles or at random failures from the point of cost. For this purpose, we give models of the expected cost rates for the following replacement policies: (1) The unit is replaced at a working cycle N and at a failure number K, respectively; (2) Replacement first and last policies with working cycle N and failure number K, respectively; (3) Replacement overtime policies with working cycle N and failure number K, respectively. Optimizations and comparisons of the policies for N and K are made analytically and numerically.

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals Vol.E103-A No.2 pp.523-532
Publication Date
2020/02/01
Publicized
Online ISSN
1745-1337
DOI
10.1587/transfun.2019EAP1049
Type of Manuscript
PAPER
Category
Reliability, Maintainability and Safety Analysis

Authors

Satoshi MIZUTANI
  Aichi Institute of Technology
Xufeng ZHAO
  Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Toshio NAKAGAWA
  Aichi Institute of Technology

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