Various maintenance policies can be implemented in the electric power systems in order to ensure satisfactory component and system reliability performance by reducing significantly the frequency of service interruptions and the magnitude of their undesirable consequences. The purpose of this paper is to present the main features of the Reliability Centered Maintenance programs that incorporate predictive maintenance approaches. A special attention is given to the Failure Modes Effects and Criticality Analysis which can be used as an appropriate tool in order to provide useful information for implementing such maintenance procedures for the various components of the electric power systems. (6 pages)
In this paper, the analytical modeling is curried out for condition-based imperfect inspections of a stochastically and continuously deteriorating single-unit radar system. The system condition is described by a stochastic process with monotonically decreasing realizations. The decision rule used for checking the system suitability in the upcoming time interval is considered. The analytical expressions for the probabilities of correct and incorrect decisions when checking the suitability of a single-unit radar system are derived. A sufficiently general model of a random process with monotonically decreasing realizations is used to illustrate the proposed general expressions of the probabilities of correct and incorrect decisions.
Since the end of the Cold War, the study of European defence has been dominated by a ‘Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP)-centric’ approach, while largely neglecting the comparative analysis ...