Comparison of Age, Block, and Failure Replacement Policies

Menachem Berg; Benjamin Epstein

doi:10.1109/TR.1978.5220230

Comparison of Age, Block, and Failure Replacement Policies

Menachem Berg, Benjamin Epstein

Department of Statistics

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Abstract

Two widely used preventive replacement policies are the age replacement policy (ARP) and the block replacement policy (BRP). Another replacement policy is the failure replacement policy (FRP)in which no preventive replacements are made at all. In this paper we give a rule for choosing the least costly of the above three policies under conditions specified in the paper. The implementation of this rule is illustrated for two special cases, where the distribution of item life times is uniform, or 2-stage Erlang.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	25-29
Number of pages	5
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Reliability
Volume	R-27
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TR.1978.5220230
State	Published - Apr 1978

Keywords

Age
Block
Failure replacement policies

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Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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