The time for conducting Preventive Maintenance (PM) on an asset is oftendetermined using a predefined alarm limit based on trends of a hazard function. In this paper, theauthors propose using both hazard and reliabili...The time for conducting Preventive Maintenance (PM) on an asset is oftendetermined using a predefined alarm limit based on trends of a hazard function. In this paper, theauthors propose using both hazard and reliability functions to improve the accuracy of theprediction particularly when the failure characteristic of the asset whole life is modelled usingdifferent failure distributions for the different stages of the life of the asset. The proposedmethod is validated using simulations and case studies.展开更多
文摘The time for conducting Preventive Maintenance (PM) on an asset is oftendetermined using a predefined alarm limit based on trends of a hazard function. In this paper, theauthors propose using both hazard and reliability functions to improve the accuracy of theprediction particularly when the failure characteristic of the asset whole life is modelled usingdifferent failure distributions for the different stages of the life of the asset. The proposedmethod is validated using simulations and case studies.
