OPTIMAL AGE-REPLACEMENT POLICY FOR NON-REPAIRABLE TECHNICAL OBJECTS WITH WARRANTY

This paper investigates the effects of introducing preventive replacement to maintenance system implemented by age-replacement of technical objects with valid manufacturer's warranty and non-repairable. In order to examine this, the cost per unit time, resulting from the use of the preventive replacements and repairs system is investigated. The function expressing the cost depending on the time of replacement is defined on the basis of the foundations of the theory of semi-Markov processes. Sufficient conditions for the existence of the minimum of criteria function were formulated, in this case when the failure rate function is increasing. In the final part of the paper, a numerical example illustrating the findings of the paper was presented.