Maintenance Model for an Automobile System
Keywords:
External Cause, Internal Cause, Maintenance Model, Poisson Process, Shock Models, Terminal Small Repairable Breakdown.Abstract
The maintenance model for a repairable system is considered. The system will fail due to an internal component failure, or an external arrival of an accident, whichever occurs first. The consecutive threshold values of an external arrival of an accident are monotone geometric. Whenever the inter-arrival time of two successive small repairable breakdowns is smaller than the specified threshold then the system fails and will be replaced. The optimal policy N* for minimizing the long run average cost per unit time is determined with a numerical example.
