To this day, continuous developments of technical systems and increasing reliance on
equipment have resulted in a growing importance of effective maintenance activities. During …

Remaining useful life (RUL) is the useful life left on an asset at a particular time of operation.
Its estimation is central to condition based maintenance and prognostics and health …

This article discusses the problems associated with the redundancy of structures k-out-of-n
as a method of increasing system availability. A parallel k-out-of-n system was considered …

Condition-based maintenance (CBM) is a maintenance program that recommends
maintenance decisions based on the information collected through condition monitoring. It …

This article surveys the application of gamma processes in maintenance. Since the
introduction of the gamma process in the area of reliability in 1975, it has been increasingly …

Industrial plant maintenance is an area which has enormous potential to be improved. It is
also an area attracted significant attention from mathematical modellers because of the …

During the operation, machines generate vibrations which result in deterioration of machine
tools eventually causing failure of some subsystems or the machine itself. The vibration …

This paper deals with a continuously deteriorating system which is inspected at random
times sequentially chosen by help of a maintenance scheduling function. The deterioration …

Purpose–Maintenance and its management has moved from being considered a “necessary
evil” to being of strategic importance for most competitive organisations around the world. In …

Prognostics is an engineering discipline utilizing in-situ monitoring and analysis to assess
system degradation trends, and determine remaining useful life. This paper discusses the …