Optimum Maintenance Policy of a Periodically Inspected System under Imperfect Repair

الملخص EN

This paper deals with the maintenance policy of a system subject to periodical inspections aimed at detecting the occurrence of failures.

After the first N−1 failure, the system undergoes an imperfect repair that brings the system back to the operating condition while the N th failure is followed by a perfect repair restoring the unit to an as-good-as-new condition.

The limiting average availability as well as the minimum cost policy are discussed.