Opportunity-based block replacement: the single component case


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In this paper we consider a block replacement model in which a component can be replaced preventively at maintenance opportunities only. Maintenance opportunities occur randomly and are modelled through a renewal process. In the first, theoretical part of the paper we derive an optimality



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  • distribution
  • opportunity
  • replacement
  • block
  • component
  • control
  • limit
  • policy
  • k 2 distribution
  • function
  • renewal
  • approximation
  • maintenance
  • theorem
  • model
  • probability
  • recurrence time
  • process
  • dekker
  • density