#4738. Optimal preventive maintenance level for a repairable product under warranty subject to multimode failure process
August 2026 | publication date |
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Business, Management and Accounting (all);
Strategy and Management; |
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Abstract:
The purpose of this paper is to develop a model that determines whether how much effort of preventive maintenance action is worthwhile for the consumer over the post-sale product life cycle of a repairable complex product where the product is under warranty and subject to stochastic multimode failure process, that is, damaging failure and light failure with different probabilities. The authors consider the failure rate function reduction method in their model where the scale parameter of a failure rate function is maximized by applying the optimal preventive maintenance level. The scale parameter of any failure distribution refers to the meantime to failure (MTTF). The first-order condition is applied with respect to the maintenance level in order to achieve the convexity of the nonlinear function of the expected life cycle cost function. The authors have suggested different maintenance policies to consumers in order to implement the proposed preventive maintenance model under different conditions. Furthermore, for such a kind of product, which is under warranty and fails with multimode, this study suggests a new preventive maintenance approach that assures the minimum expected life cycle cost.
Keywords:
Damaging failure; Failure rate function; Multimode failures; Preventive maintenance; Product life cycle; Warranty
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