This paper presents an overview of two maintenance techniques widely discussed in the
literature: time-based maintenance (TBM) and condition-based maintenance (CBM). The …

In reliability engineering literature, a large number of research papers on optimal preventive
maintenance (PM) of technical systems (networks) have appeared based on preliminary …

In the past several decades, maintenance and replacement problems of deteriorating
systems have been extensively studied in the literature. Thousands of maintenance and …

Many serious accidents have happened in the world where systems have been large-scale
and complex, and have caused heavy damage and a social sense of instability …

This book aims to present a state-of-the-art survey of theories and methods of reliability,
maintenance, and warranty with emphasis on multi-unit systems, and to reflect current hot …

New, global and extended markets are forcing companies to process and manage
increasingly differentiated products with shorter life cycles, low volumes and reduced …

Living donors are a significant and increasing source of livers for transplantation, mainly
because of the insufficient supply of cadaveric organs. We consider the problem of optimally …

Infrastructure management plays an important role in sustainable development and is
essential for the evaluation of the socioeconomic feasibility of existing projects and the …

This paper presents a sensory-updated degradation-based predictive maintenance policy
(herein referred to as the SUDM policy). The proposed maintenance policy utilizes …

Condition based maintenance (CBM) aims to balance two extreme sides (ie, corrective
maintenance (CM), and preventive maintenance (PM)) by observing and forecasting the real …