Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2026, Vol. 48 ›› Issue (6): 1925-1932.doi: 10.12305/j.issn.1001-506X.2026.06.14

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Optimization of two-dimensional preventive maintenance strategy considering competing failure

Kaiyan WANG(), Chun SU()   

  1. School of Mechanical Engineering,Southeast University,Nanjing 211189,China
  • Received:2025-03-04 Revised:2025-06-12 Accepted:2026-04-27 Online:2026-06-25 Published:2026-03-31
  • Contact: Chun SU E-mail:bingley111520@outlook.com;suchun@seu.edu.cn

Abstract:

Taking the electromechanical products with competing failure phenomenon under continuous monitoring as the research object, the influence of imperfect maintenance on maintenance cost is investigated within finite time horizon. To address competing failures caused by sudden failure and performance-degradation failure, a two-dimensional preventive maintenance (2D PM) strategy is proposed. In this strategy, one dimension of the 2D PM refers to the time interval of imperfect maintenance, and the other dimension refers to the performance-degradation threshold of product degradation failures, whichever occurs first. Considering two corrective maintenance (CM) scenarios, i.e., corrective minimal maintenance and corrective imperfect maintenance, an improved discrete grid method is proposed to optimize the total cost of 2D PM and CM within a finite time horizon. Using the elevator brake as a case study, the effectiveness of the proposed maintenance policy and method is validated. The results indicate that implementing 2D preventive imperfect maintenance combined with minimal corrective maintenance can minimize the overall maintenance cost. In addition, for certain values of the improvement factor, 2D PM with optimal parameters is equivalent to maintenance based on the performance-degradation threshold.

Key words: competing failure, two-dimensional preventive maintenance, finite time horizon, improved discrete grid method, elevator brake

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