Renewal in changing environment

Abstract

Usually the renewal stochastic processes are used for description of repairable systems performance in the fixed environment. The main characteristic that arises in applications is the mean number of failures or repairs and this is very significant for the spares assessment. In this paper the situation is generalized for the case of changing environment (deterministic or random). The renewal equations for various types of repair, ranging from perfect to minimal via general, are analyzed from the maintenance point of view. Several simple examples are considered.

Citation

Finkelstein, M.S. (1998), "Renewal in changing environment", Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering, Vol. 4 No. 3, pp. 219-226. https://doi.org/10.1108/13552519810223508