Designing preventive maintenance (PM) policies that ensure smooth and efficient
production for large-scale manufacturing systems is non-trivial. Recent model-free …

Condition-based maintenance (CBM) is receiving increasing attention in various
engineering systems because of its effectiveness. This paper formulates a new CBM …

Life-cycle assessment of high-voltage (HV) circuit breakers (CB) in transmission systems, if
efficiently done, can lead to an optimal decision on when, where, and how to perform …

Natural commutation hybrid DC circuit breakers integrate the low loss of mechanical circuit
breakers and the fast switching speed of solid-state circuit breakers. Its overall reliability …

We consider a sensor that samples an N-state continuous-time Markov chain (CTMC)-based
information source process, and transmits the observed state of the source, to a remote …

The increasing size, aging equipment, and complexity of power systems, coupled with
present day financial constraints, have made the use of probabilistic methods and reliability …

An algorithm for integrating uncertain parameters in Markov analysis is proposed. Fuzzy
Markov models for aging equipment and substations are developed in which the transition …

Over the recent decades, there has been a growing interest in nuclear power plants to
develop maintenance activities in the form of risk-based models. Maintenance planning …

In competitive environments, most equipment are operated closer to or at their limits and as
a result, equipment's maintenance schedules may be affected by system conditions. In this …

In the past few decades, various maintenance policies with different operation principles,
such as preventive or predictive maintenance were developed due to importance of …