Smidt-Destombes, Karin S. de; Heijden, Matthieu C. van der - In: International Journal of Production Economics 118 (2009) 1, pp. 260-268
To achieve a high system availability at minimal costs, relevant decisions include the choice of preventive maintenance frequency, spare part inventory levels and spare part repair capacity. We develop heuristics for the joint optimisation of these variables for (a) a single k-out-of-N system...