...Mohamed Noomane Darghouth Purpose This study aims to investigate a two-unit cold standby system subject to practical operational factors, including operator fatigue, preventive maintenance and imperfect repairs. The system operates under a policy requiring the operator to rest after...

...Faqun Qi; Binghai Zhou Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop novel preventive maintenance (PM) modeling methods for a cold standby system subject to two types of failures: random failure and deterioration failure. Design/methodology/approach The system consists of two components...