A Maintenance Policy Model Based on Time-Variant Reliability

A maintenance policy model based on time-variant reliability is put forward upon those mechanical systems which can carry on multiple maintenance in the whole life period, and the recurrence relations of the preventive maintenance intervals and reliability benefits is established. Two kinds of devices, one device’s mean time to failure complies with exponential distribution and another device’s mean time to failure meets the Weibull distribution, are taken as examples to get the approximate function expressions of the system's maintainability parameters of these devices through the curve fitting for data, analyze the system’s maintainability parameters and get the equipment’s maintenance policy model based on time-variant reliability. Examples verify the feasibility of the model.