Purpose–This paper reviews the literature on opportunistic maintenance (OM) as new
advance maintenance approach and policy. The purpose of this paper is to conceptually …

This paper aims to minimize the expected daily inspection cost of a k-out-of-n load-sharing
system with identical components. We consider a hybrid mixed-redundancy strategy for the …

The availability and optimal maintenance policies of a competing-risk system undergoing
periodic inspections are studied in this paper. Specifically, a repairable system with a …

Most existing studies on joint optimization of manufacturing systems (MS) focus on small-
scale systems with simple structures, such as the single-machine, simple serial, or parallel …

We develop a delay time model for a one component system with postponed replacement to
analyze situations in which maintenance might not be executed immediately upon discovery …

In the present paper, a system with components subject to soft and hard failures is
considered. It is assumed that hard failures are revealed and fixed immediately and present …

This paper proposes two optimization models for the periodic inspection of a system with
“hard-type” and “soft-type” components. Given that the failures of hard-type components are …

This paper considers a single-unit system subject to two types of failures: a traditional
catastrophic failure and a two-stage delayed failure. Periodic inspections are carried out to …

In this paper, we consider a k-out-of-n load-sharing system with n identical components
sharing a certain amount of load. Each time a component fails, its load is distributed to the …

This paper studies the maintenance modelling of a multi-component system with two
independent failure modes with imperfect prediction signal in the context of a system of …