On sequence planning for selective maintenance of multi-state systems under stochastic maintenance durations

Y Liu, Y Chen, T Jiang - European Journal of Operational Research, 2018 - Elsevier
In many industrial and military environments, systems are required to execute a sequence of
missions with a finite break between two adjacent missions. Due to the limited maintenance …

A cost-based integrated importance measure of system components for preventive maintenance

H Dui, S Si, RCM Yam - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2017 - Elsevier
Preventive maintenance may be performed on a few selected components when a
component fails. Importance measures can be used to identify the most important …

Linking component importance to optimisation of preventive maintenance policy

S Wu, Y Chen, Q Wu, Z Wang - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2016 - Elsevier
In reliability engineering, time on performing preventive maintenance (PM) on a component
in a system may affect system availability if system operation needs stopping for PM. To …

Importance Measure-based Resilience Management: Review, Methodology and Perspectives on Maintenance

H Dui, M Liu, J Song, S Wu - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2023 - Elsevier
In recent years, frequent natural or man-made disturbances have accelerated the study of
resilience management. As an important source of system resilience, maintenance activities …

Importance measures for optimal structure in linear consecutive-k-out-of-n systems

H Dui, S Si, RCM Yam - Reliability engineering & system safety, 2018 - Elsevier
Importance measures can describe which component reliability change is the most
promising if the system structure can be easily changed. Recently, the Birnbaum importance …

A deep reinforcement learning approach to dynamic loading strategy of repairable multistate systems

Y Chen, Y Liu, T Xiahou - IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As multistate system (MSS) reliability models can characterize the multistate deteriorating
nature of engineering systems, they have received considerable attention in the past …

Replacement and repair optimization for production systems under random production waits

J Hu, Q Sun, ZS Ye - IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This study considers a repairable production system operated under an age-based
preventive replacement policy that is subject to independent random production waits and …

A stationary grouping maintenance strategy using mean residual life and the birnbaum importance measure for complex structures

HC Vu, P Do, A Barros - IEEE Transactions on reliability, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a stationary grouping maintenance strategy for multi-component
systems whose structure could be a mixture of the basic structures such as series structures …

System reliability evaluation under dynamic operating conditions

L Hong, Q Zhai, X Wang, ZS Ye - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Components in a system work under the same dynamic operating conditions, and their
lifetimes are generally positively correlated. Ignorance of the correlation may lead to a …

考虑认知不确定性的多状态系统Birnbaum 重要度分析方法

夏侯唐凡, 刘宇, 张皓冬, 张成林 - 机械工程学报, 2018 - cjmenet.com.cn
重要度分析是辨识复杂系统可靠性薄弱环节的有效手段. 但现有的重要度分析方法均假设系统及
组成部件的退化规律是完全精确已知的, 即系统和部件的退化或失效模型是可以被精确估计的 …