Opportunistic Maintenance for Heterogeneous Complex Systems Under Continuous Monitoring

24 Pages Posted: 23 Aug 2019

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Inma T. Castro

University of Extremadura

Rob J.I. Basten

Eindhoven University of Technology (TUE)

Geert-Jan van Houtum

Eindhoven University of Technology (TUE)

Date Written: August 21, 2019

Abstract

We analyze the maintenance strategy for a complex system consisting of two types of components: non-monitored and monitored. Non-monitored components can only be maintained correctively upon failure. Monitored components are monitored continuously and are maintained when they become too degraded, i.e., just before its degradation level hits a threshold. There is an economic dependence between the components, which means that a maintenance intervention for one component can be used as an opportunity for preventive maintenance of monitored components: If the degradation level of a monitored component exceeds a preventive threshold at the time of another maintenance intervention, this component is maintained preventively. Evaluating the costs of a given maintenance strategy is time consuming, especially for a large number of monitored components. However, using semi-regenerative techniques instead of renewal techniques, we are able to drastically shorten the required computation time: For a system with ten monitored components, the computation time to evaluate the optimal maintenance strategy goes from more than a day to few seconds. We give numerical examples to illustrate our results.

Keywords: Condition-based maintenance, opportunistic maintenance, complex systems, semi-regenerative process

Suggested Citation

Castro, Inma T. and Basten, Rob J.I. and van Houtum, Geert-Jan, Opportunistic Maintenance for Heterogeneous Complex Systems Under Continuous Monitoring (August 21, 2019). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3440745 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3440745

Inma T. Castro (Contact Author)

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Rob J.I. Basten

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Geert-Jan Van Houtum

Eindhoven University of Technology (TUE) ( email )

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