Optimal preventive maintenance policies for a two-component system with failure interaction

Nan Zhang (1) , Mitra Fouladirad (1) , Anne Barros (2)

1 LM2S - Laboratoire Modélisation et Sûreté des Systèmes
2 NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology [Trondheim]

In this paper we study a classical warranty policy 'free replacement policy' (FRW) for a two-component system with the following failure dependence between them: unit 1 causes random damages to unit 2 when it fails. While the failure of unit 2 is catastrophic and it destroys unit 1 and so the whole system. Imperfect maintenance by using virtual age method and system replacement are executed when the failure occurs to component 1 and the whole system respectively. Under both the non-renewable FRWand renewable FRW, from the manufacturers' point of view, the system expected total warranty costs are explored.

Keywords: warranty; maintenance; failure interaction; imperfect repair

Domains: Engineering Sciences [physics]

Nan Zhang, Mitra Fouladirad, Anne Barros. Optimal preventive maintenance policies for a two-component system with failure interaction. ALT2016 : 6th International Conference on Accelerated Life Testing and Degradation Models, Jun 2016, Troyes, France. ⟨hal-03322377⟩