This study develops an analytic framework for joint modeling of age-based preventive maintenance and (s, Q) spare component provisioning policy for k-out-of-n:G systems with i.i.d. nonrepairable components. We assume that during system maintenance, instead of discarding the whole system, only...

The problem of the optimal duration of a burn-in experiment is considered in the case of simultaneous testing n components with the conditionally independent time-transformed exponential life-times, given an unknown parameter. The explicit solution is derived by reformulation of the problem...