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Chinese Journal of Management Science ›› 2025, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (6): 151-159.doi: 10.16381/j.cnki.issn1003-207x.2022.1364

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Optimal Imperfect Maintenance Strategies for Repairable Systems Considering Repair Fatigue

Wenjie Dong1, Na Zhang2(), Chenchen Hua1, Zhigeng Fang1   

  1. 1.College of Economics and Management,Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics,Nanjing 211106,China
    2.School of Business,Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology,Nanjing 210044,China
  • Received:2022-06-22 Revised:2023-02-20 Online:2025-06-25 Published:2025-07-04
  • Contact: Na Zhang E-mail:zhangnanuaa@163.com

Abstract:

Preventive maintenance is receiving widely attention and application both in industry and academia because it can eliminate potential faults in time and effectively improve system reliability. However, with the continuous increase of maintenance numbers, repairable systems in engineering practice gradually show long-term “repair fatigue”. That is, the marginal contribution of maintenance activities to the positive impact of improving equipment life and improving system failure rate will gradually decrease. Considering the phenomenon of “repair fatigue” of equipment in engineering practice, periodical imperfect maintenance models and sequential imperfect maintenance models are established based on dynamic failure rate improvement factor and age reduction factor, and subsequently, the optimal policies of the maintenance models are optimized according to the renewal reward theorem. Numerical experiments demonstrate that ignoring the repair fatigue will lead to excessive maintenance, not only wasting maintenance resources but also delaying the ordering of spare parts. In addition, the effects of various maintenance costs on the optimal decisions of periodic imperfect maintenance strategy and sequential imperfect maintenance strategy are analyzed, providing theoretical and technical support for industrial enterprises to better schedule maintenance activities.

Key words: preventive maintenance (PM), imperfect maintenance, repair fatigue, renewal reward theorem, adjustment factor

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