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

Reuse and remanufacturing have been widely studied in the maintenance related literature
due to the imperative of preserving resources and protecting the environment. To provide …

This paper investigates a novel two-phase preventive maintenance policy for a single-
component system with an objective of maximizing the revenue generated by the …

Inspection, as a fundamental component of asset management, is crucial to reveal
underlying defects and report health evolution. Due to technical restrictions or human errors …

Inspections are crucial to reveal asset health and support preventive maintenance, which,
however, are susceptible to multiple uncertainties due to human errors and limitations of …

Numerous industrial assets inevitably encounter defect emergence during actual operation,
which significantly aggravates the degradation process. This study investigates a prognosis …

Abstract Accepted by: M. Zied Babai It is natural to coordinate spare-parts inventory planning
and maintenance. However, work in the former area often neglects part utilization, and work …

This article evaluates 186 papers, published between 1978 and 2013 in 16 representative
scientific journals, related to maintenance and reliability problems that were tackled from a …

We consider a system with three possible states, good, defective and failed. Failures are
detected as soon as they occur; the defective state, which is only revealed by inspection …

We study an inspection and replacement policy for a system when maintenance actions are
executed at times or “visits” with a fixed, periodic schedule. Then, the novel focus of the …