“…Adjustment activities could change the aging characteristics of components, and if done correctly, ultimately decreases the rate of failure, while after replacement, the components would be as good as new. A preventive maintenance scheduling problem generally tries to find the best sequence of maintenance actions for each component in each period over a planning horizon such that overall cost is minimized subject to a constraint on a reliability, or the reliability of the system is maximized subject to a constraint on budget (Moghaddam, 2008;Sheikhalishahi, Ebrahimipour, & Farahani, 2013;Sheikhalishahi, Ebrahimipour, Shiri, Zaman, & Jeihoonian, 2013).…”