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

The Markov decision process (MDP) is a widely used method to optimise the maintenance of
multicomponent systems, which can provide a system-level maintenance action at each …

Many production facilities consist of multiple and functionally exchangeable units of
equipment, such as pumps or turbines, that are jointly used to satisfy a given production …

Civil infrastructure is subjected to multiple deterioration processes (eg, gradual deterioration
and shock deterioration) caused by environmental exposure and extreme events during its …

Standby techniques are widely incorporated in structural design to enhance the inherent
reliability of systems. To further leverage the system performance during operation, decision …

In many military scenarios, an aircraft fleet is oftentimes required to execute a sequence of
missions with finite breaks between two adjacent missions. The performance of a fleet can …

In engineering scenarios, failures of some components in a system may not always lead to
the failure of an entire system. In such cases, the system can continuously operate while …

The component reallocation (CR) policy is an emerging and effective preventive
maintenance policy for improving the system performance, which has attracted much …

This paper develops an optimal replacement policy V* for a multi-state manufacturing
system. The manufacturing system would be repaired imperfectly once its performance …

Nowadays, industrial systems are more and more complex and components are integrated
dependently. Without consideration of dependence between components often leads to …