Probabilistic Evaluation of the Effect of Maintenance Parameters on Reliability and Cost Conference Paper uri icon

abstract

  • Preventive maintenance is performed to extend the equipment lifetime or at least the mean time between failures. Cost-effective maintenance scheduling is important due to budget constraints in the current situation where reduction of the operating and capital cost is the focus of the power industry. In order to establish a cost-effective maintenance, quantitative evaluation of maintenance parameters is critical. In this paper, a probabilistic model to achieve cost-effective maintenance strategies is presented. Reliability indices such as mean duration, state probability and visit frequency of each state, are computed using Monte Carlo simulation and demonstrated using a numerical example. Further, cost analysis is performed by computing all associated costs including inspection, maintenance and failure costs based on the reliability indices. 2010 IEEE.

name of conference

  • 2010 IEEE 11th International Conference on Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power Systems

published proceedings

  • 2010 IEEE 11th International Conference on Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power Systems

author list (cited authors)

  • Ghavami, M., & Kezunovic, M.

citation count

  • 9

complete list of authors

  • Ghavami, Mohsen||Kezunovic, Mladen

publication date

  • June 2010