Condition-based maintenance strategy optimization of meta-action unit considering imperfect preventive maintenance based on Wiener process

Abstract

With the popularization and application of technologies such as monitoring and sensing, the application of condition-based maintenance has become increasingly widespread. However, most traditional condition-based maintenance strategies focus on a component or system, which is too large for fault diagnosis and location. Moreover, imperfect maintenance is seldom considered and most of them only optimize the single variable in condition-based maintenance decision. In this paper, the meta-action unit is taken as the research object, and the Wiener process is used to describe the performance degradation of the meta-action unit. Considering that the maintenance quality deteriorates with the increase of the number of maintenance, and has randomness, the beta distribution is used to establish an imperfect preventive maintenance quality model. A new maintenance optimization strategy is proposed, with the long-term maintenance cost rate as the goal, to obtain the best preventive maintenance threshold, inspection cycle and the optimal number of maintenance. Finally, a Monte Carlo simulation was used to solve numerically and analyze the influence of each parameter on the optimal decision. It can provide a reference for the decision-making when developing maintenance policies.