, preventive maintenance should be planned as well. If a failure cannot be averted, a corrective maintenance activity is performed …. Both maintenance activities are assumed to restore the machine to become `as good as new'. Furthermore it is assumed that … jobs, interrupted by a machine failure, have to get restarted after the corrective maintenance is finished (non …

Management decisions regarding maintenance protocols critically hinge on the underlying probability distribution of the …, maintenance decisions lead to left-truncated observations, and right-censored observations. Thus, the underlying stochastic … other models on failure time and maintenance data stemming from the South Texas Project nuclear power plant. …