A literature review on selective maintenance for multi‐unit systems

Abstract

Selective maintenance is regarded as a type of profit-generating maintenance policy, playing an important role in balancing limited maintenance resources with system performance. Since 1988, increasing interest has been focused on this research area. Nevertheless, to the best of our knowledge, there is a lack of critical reviews of selective maintenance. This paper is the first systematic review focusing on this relevant topic. In this work, a definition and some specific features of selective maintenance are elaborated. Based on these features, a set of criteria that have been considered in selective maintenance optimization are summarized into 3 categories: system characteristics, maintenance characteristics, and mission profile characteristics. Based on these criteria, a comprehensive literature review on selective maintenance is undertaken. The solution approaches, as well as a general procedure for selective maintenance optimization, are discussed. Finally, some possible directions for further research are provided.

Mission Reliability-Oriented Selective Maintenance Optimization for Intelligent Multistate Manufacturing Systems With Uncertain Maintenance Quality

“…straints [3]. In such case, the repairman must reasonably allocate resources on the basis of reliability-centered maintenance (RCM), i.e., selective maintenance [4], [5].…”

“…At present, selective maintenance research for multistate systems focuses on two aspects: maintenance method and system characteristic [5]. Maintenance method include the degree of maintenance and the required amount of resource consumption that can affect maintenance decisions [6].…”

“…These studies still use component-level information data, but multi-level system-level data is necessary to ensure mission success and system security [28]. Moreover, selective maintenance is mission-oriented [5]. Thus, this strategy fails to fully describe the operational process of manufacturing systems because production task is disregarded.…”

Selective maintenance optimisation considering random common cause failures and imperfect maintenance

“…Since then, selective maintenance optimisation for much more complicated cases has been investigated extensively. 9–13…”

A review of asset management literature on multi-asset systems

“…Opportunistic maintenance policy utilises the system downtime due to an asset failure to perform maintenance activities on other assets that are yet to fail with an objective to reduce set-up cost and prevent future failure.Recent selective maintenance policy is a variation of a condition-based maintenance which customises a maintenance policy of each asset according to its actual condition and the mission profile of the system. Studies on maintenance models for systems with dependent units have been systematically organised in literature review papers by Cho and Parlar[5], Olde Keizer et al[3], and Cao et al[115]. Specific studies on equipment replacement analysis for multi-asset systems have been compiled in the literature survey by Hartman and Tan[116].…”