Optimum Periodic Component Reallocation and System Replacement Maintenance

In a repairable system with multiple functionally interchangeable components, the components may work in different environmental or operational stresses associated with their positions, and thus, experience different failure rates and nonhomogeneous degradation processes. For such a system, the system lifetime can be improved by reassigning the components among the positions in the system after a period of operation. In this sense, the component...