maintenance is one of the inseparable parts of each industry and relations between this part and others consist of many dynamics and feedbacks. by this regard systems dynamic is a tool that can be used to analyze this part. in this paper for a company that produces wire and cable, cause and effect (feedbacks) between maintenance and others part are modeled. after creating stock-flow diagram, mo...

In this paper, a single-product, single-machine system under Markovian deterioration of machine condition and demand uncertainty is studied.  The objective is to find the optimal intervals for inspection and preventive maintenance activities in a condition-based maintenance planning with discrete monitoring framework. At first, a stochastic dynamic programming model whose state variable is the ...

In this paper, we investigate two dimensional leased contracts for a dump truck operated in a mining industry. To keep the truck in a good operational condition, an imperfect preventive maintenance (PM) policy is applied. When the truck fails then corrective maintenance (CM) is done. PM and/or CM can be leased to an external agent or a lessor for an economic reason. The situation under study is...

This paper analyses the production availability and associated maintenance costs of an offshore wind turbine with a horizontal axis configuration using Petri Nets modelling Monte Carlo Simulation. For this purpose, different features are implemented: reliability maintainability characteristics components; logistics operations, including types vessels, mobilization time, weather window. The stra...

This paper investigates the influence of the length of the lease period on the maintenance policy for leased equipment with residual value. The length of the lease period increases, however, the lessor’s income increases, and the maintenance cost of the equipment rises as well. Therefore, the lease payment and maintenance service of the equipment are crucial items in the lease contract for the ...

Aircraft is a system that requires high reliability levels throughout flights. Preventive maintenance procedures are applied to maintain this reliability at an optimum level. The higher frequency of preventive maintenance applications means higher reliability level; however, very frequent application of preventive maintenance is not economical though. In order to obtain optimum benefit, this ma...

An age replacement maintenance policy is considered here, in which a system is restored whenever it fails, or ages without failure up to a preventive maintenance epoch (whichever comes first). The duration of the restoration activity is random, and depends on whether it was precipitated by a failure or by a preventive maintenance action. The case where the preventive maintenance epoch is determ...