A Usage-Informed Preventive Maintenance Policy to Optimize the Maintenance Free Operating Period for Multi-Component Systems
Résumé
This paper deals with the concept of Maintenance Free Operating Period (MFOP). This MFOP is defined as a period of operation during which the system should be able with a given level of confidence to carry out all its assigned missions without system fault or performance limitation. Based on this concept, a dynamic maintenance policy for a multi-component system is implemented. The main objective of this paper is to propose a method to integrate the usage information of the system components in order to optimize the implemented policy. The method is evaluated considering the Total Maintenance Cost (TMC) value.