"General preventive maintenance model for input components of a system, which improves the reliability to %22as good as new%22, is used to optimize the maintenance cost. The cost function of a maintenance policy is minimized under given availability constraint. An algorithm for first inspection vector of times is described and used on selected system example. A special ratio-criterion, based on the time dependent Birnbaum importance factor, was used to generate the ordered sequence of first inspection times.Problem called as %22reliability assurance%22 is theoretically solved and answered, i.e. finding the cost of maintenance when asymptotic availability value (WRV-Worst Reliability Value) conforms to a given availability constraint (asymptotic availability va lue is supposed as the limiting value for time going to infinity). System representation using acyclic graph is briefly introduced. Basic system availability calculations of the paper were done by using Matlab program (analytical) for computing of the WR" . . "619868" . "2003-06-15+02:00"^^ . "Optimization of maintenance cost under asymptotic reliability constraint"@en . . "Chatelet, E." . "RIV/61989100:27240/03:00008716!RIV/2004/GA0/272404/N" . "Optimization of maintenance cost under asymptotic reliability constraint"@en . "3"^^ . "27240" . "7"^^ . "0"^^ . "0"^^ . "1"^^ . "90-5809-551-7" . "P(GA102/03/1539)" . "Rotterdam" . "Yalaoui, F." . . "Maastricht" . . "maintenance, cost, asymptotic availability, genetic algorithm, acyclic graph, reliability"@en . . "Bri\u0161, Radim" . . . . . . "RIV/61989100:27240/03:00008716" . "271-277" . . "General preventive maintenance model for input components of a system, which improves the reliability to %22as good as new%22, is used to optimize the maintenance cost. The cost function of a maintenance policy is minimized under given availability constraint. An algorithm for first inspection vector of times is described and used on selected system example. A special ratio-criterion, based on the time dependent Birnbaum importance factor, was used to generate the ordered sequence of first inspection times.Problem called as %22reliability assurance%22 is theoretically solved and answered, i.e. finding the cost of maintenance when asymptotic availability value (WRV-Worst Reliability Value) conforms to a given availability constraint (asymptotic availability va lue is supposed as the limiting value for time going to infinity). System representation using acyclic graph is briefly introduced. Basic system availability calculations of the paper were done by using Matlab program (analytical) for computing of the WR"@en . . . . "Optimization of maintenance cost under asymptotic reliability constraint" . . "Proceedings of ESREL 2003" . "[348FC2C7CB93]" . . . . "Optimization of maintenance cost under asymptotic reliability constraint" . . "A. A. Balkema" .