Along with increasing the warranty period for complex systems, reducing the warranty
servicing costs has become an issue of great importance to the manufacturers. One possible …

In the past several decades, maintenance and replacement problems of deteriorating
systems have been extensively studied in the literature. Thousands of maintenance and …

The maintenance of a deteriorating system is often imperfect: the system after maintenance
will not as good as new, but younger. Imperfect maintenance study indicates a significant …

This book aims to present a state-of-the-art survey of theories and methods of reliability,
maintenance, and warranty with emphasis on multi-unit systems, and to reflect current hot …

New, global and extended markets are forcing companies to process and manage
increasingly differentiated products with shorter life cycles, low volumes and reduced …

Preventive maintenance (PM) is a maintenance program with activities initiated at
predetermined intervals, or according to prescribed criteria, and intended to reduce the …

A warranty product often has an interval structure, resulting in different warranty periods for
each component due to their distinct degradation paths. From the manufacturer's …

Due to the production process for continuous process manufacturing system (CPMS) cannot
be stopped, the “opportunities” for maintenance can only occur within the specified time …

The geometric process (GP) can be used to model the occurrence of events, which have an
underlying monotonic trend. This type of trend can be observed in many practical problems …

A multi-state system (MSS) has more than two discrete states corresponding to different
performance rates. Usually, MSS is viewed as in a failure state once its performance rate …