ON MAINTAINED SYSTEMS OPERATING IN A RANDOM ENVIRONMENT Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • This paper examines the availability of a maintained system where the rate of deterioration is governed by an exogenous random environment. We provide a qualitative result that exposes the relationship between remaining lifetime, environment, and repairs. This result leads to simple bounds that can be used to choose inspection rates that guarantee a specified level of availability. The principal result requires no specific distributional assumptions, is intuitively appealing and can be directly applied by practitioners. Our development employs techniques from stochastic calculus.

published proceedings

  • JOURNAL OF APPLIED PROBABILITY

author list (cited authors)

  • WORTMAN, M. A., & KLUTKE, G. A.

citation count

  • 15

complete list of authors

  • WORTMAN, MA||KLUTKE, GA

publication date

  • January 1994