A general approach to total repair cost limit replacement policies

A common replacement policy for technical systems consists in replacing a system by a new one after its economic lifetime, i.e. at that moment when its long-run maintenance cost rate is minimal. However, the strict application of the economic lifetime does not take into account the individual deviat...

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Main Author: F. Beichelt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Operations Research Society of South Africa (ORSSA) 2014-01-01
Series:ORiON
Online Access:http://orion.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/417