Medical Equipment Aging: Part III—An Aging Model for Maintenance and Replacement Plannings
Binseng Wang,
Torgeir Rui,
Scott Skinner
et al.
Abstract:The first article of this series demonstrated that some medical equipment exhibits clear, progressive deterioration with age, whereas some others do not. The second article showed that although most equipment remains safely and reliably deployed well over its respective depreciation period and the end-of-life or end-of-support dates declared by the respective manufacturers, some equipment needs to be replaced sooner. Because it is not practical to wait for the collection and analysis of large amounts of data t… Show more
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