In condition-based maintenance area, mean residual life function is recognized as a promising reliability indicator for maintenance decision-making. However, very few maintenance strategies based on the mean residual life have been developed. This paper therefore analyzes a predictive maintenance strategy based on the mean residual life given the degradation level collected periodically in diff...

• In the present work we propose a study of the proportional mean residual life model using quantile functions instead of distribution functions employed in the traditional approach. Through various quantile-based reliability concepts ageing properties of the model are discussed. We present characterizations of the proportional mean residual life model by properties of measures of uncertainty i...

The failure rate function and mean residual life function are two important characteristics in reliability analysis. Although many papers have studied distributions with bathtub-shaped failure rate and their properties, few have focused on the underlying associations between the mean residual life and failure rate function of these distributions, especially with respect to their changing points...