Dynamic Inspection Planning for Systems with Individually Repairable Components

Abstract

In this paper a multi-component system is studied where each component can be repaired within the system. We consider that each component is subject to two dependent competing failure processes due to degradation and random shocks and each shock increases the total degradation of each component. For systems with individual repairable components, each failed component can be replaced at any inspection time and other components continue functioning, so the age of each component at any inspection time is different from other components. Different initial ages have an effect on the optimal time that the whole system should be inspected, therefore the optimal inspection time should be calculated dynamically considering the age of each component at the beginning of the interval. In this paper, the system reliability and cost rate function is calculated for a system with individually repairable components considering random age for each component. Two numerical examples demonstrate the proposed reliability and maintenance model.