Multi-Attribute Decision Making and Generalized Expected Utility in Nuclear Power Plant Maintenance

  • François Beaudouin
  • Bertrand Munier
  • Yann Serquin
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Abstract

In the field of nuclear power plant maintenance, it is not unusual that several strategies (scenarios) of preventive maintenance are being suggested at the same time. How to determine the most advisable choice among those suggested is not a trivial matter, because on the one hand, the consequences of a given strategy are multidimensional (impact on the maintenance costs, on the reliability of the systems, on the safety of the installation, on the availability of the power plant, on exposure to radiation, etc.) and on the other hand, these consequences are not deterministic. To select a strategy of preventive maintenance, the decision-maker (or the decision-making group) must then make a complicated and subtle choice, taking into account the tradeoff between his judgement about uncertainties and his evaluations of the many and contradictory things at stake. In decision theory, the most thorough method to resolve this kind of problem is Multi-Attribute Utility Theory (MAUT).

Keywords

Utility Function Preventive Maintenance Certainty Equivalent Multiattribute Utility Rank Dependent Utility 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • François Beaudouin
    • 1
  • Bertrand Munier
    • 2
  • Yann Serquin
    • 2
  1. 1.Département SDM, Groupe Aide à la Décision de MaintenanceEDF-DERFrance
  2. 2.Département Economie et Gestion, Ecole Normale Supérieure de CachanGRIDFrance

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