Optimal Periods of Conducting Preventive Maintenance to Reduce Expected Downtime and Its Impact on Improving Reliability

Abstract

The present research mainly aims to use a mathematical formula to determine the optimal intervals for conducting preventive maintenance operations for machines to reduce the expected failure time when the malfunction data follow the Weibull distribution. The reliability function, failure rate, and the average time between machine failures were derived after performing preventive maintenance operations and before conducting preventive maintenance operations to state the amelioration that happens to machines. These rely on real data of performing preventive maintenance operations and the downtime required to repair machine or device faults that occur between preventive maintenance periods and the downtime necessary to perform preventive maintenance operations on the machine or device. Thus, the study concluded that preventive maintenance operations are working to increase the reliability of the machine and improve it, as well as to increase the average period of time for the machine to operate between faults.