UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA

RELIABILITY ENGINEERING

Economics
Maintenance
Practice MII 420
Dr. Barend Botha

Dr. Coenie Thiart

2nd Semester 2011

Maintenance Practice
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MII 420
Maintenance Engineering MII 420

Preventive Replacements

2nd Semester 2011

Prepared and presented by Dr C Thiart
Maintenance Engineering MII 420

• WHY ????
• Usually failure replacements are more
costly than preventive replacements
• Preventive Replacements are without
unnecessary delays. Work is planned
• Failure may cause damage to other
equipment

2nd Semester 2011

Prepared and presented by Dr C Thiart
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• Optimize the plan

• Time based discard
– Operating Hours
– Calendar time

2nd Semester 2011

Prepared and presented by Dr C Thiart
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• H(T) hazard function

• Mathematical aspects outside scope of MII
420. Solve graphically
2nd Semester 2011
Prepared and presented by Dr C Thiart
Maintenance Engineering MII 420

2nd Semester 2011

Prepared and presented by Dr C Thiart
Maintenance Engineering MII 420

2nd Semester 2011

Prepared and presented by Dr C Thiart
Maintenance Engineering MII 420

2nd Semester 2011

Prepared and presented by Dr C Thiart
Maintenance Engineering MII 420

• Optimal preventive replacement age of

equipment subject to breakdown
• The time at which preventive replacement
occurs depends on the age of the equipment
• Minimize the total expected cost of
replacements per unit time

2nd Semester 2011

Prepared and presented by Dr C Thiart
Taking into account times for replacement