A Survey of Preventive Maintenance Planning Models, Techniques and Policies for an Ageing and Deteriorating Production Systems

I n the past many decades, breakdown, maintenance and replacement issues of deteriorating machines and systems are extensively studied within the literature. A number of maintenance and replacement models, techniques and policies are created, documented and tested. However, of these models are comprised of some classes ∗M.Tech. Student, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Madhav Institute of Technology & Science, Gwalior, MP, India †Faculty Member, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Madhav Institute of Technology & Science, Gwalior, MP, India ‡Deputy Manager (Projects) at Subros Ltd., Noida, India Richa Chouhan et al. A Survey of Preventive Maintenance Planning Models, Techniques and Policies for an Ageing and Deteriorating Production Systems. Page 1 of 19 HCTL Open Int. J. of Technology Innovations and Research HCTL Open IJTIR, Volume 3, May 2013 e-ISSN: 2321-1814 ISBN (Print): 978-1-62776-443-8 of maintenance policies, such as age replacement and random age replacement policies, policy of replacing blocks, policy of periodic preventive maintenance, failure limit policy, sequential preventive maintenance policy, repair value limit policy, policies for repair deadline and repair range investigations, reference time policy, mixed age policy, preparation maintenance policy, cluster maintenance policy, expedient maintenance policy, etc. All policies have completely different characteristics, benefits and limitations. This survey summarizes, classifies, and compares varied existing maintenance policies for each single and multiple-unit systems. The stress of our study is on single unit systems.