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A commonly used definition of a repairable system (Ascher and Feingold 1984) states that this is a system which, after failing to perform one or more of its functions satisfactorily, can be restored to fully satisfactory performance by any method other than replacement of the entire system. In order to cover more realistic applications, and to cover much recent literature on the subject, we need to extend this definition to include the possibility of additional maintenance actions which aim at servicing the system for better performance. This is referred to as preventive maintenance (PM), where one may further distinguish between condition based PM and planned PM. The former type of maintenance is due when the system exhibits inferior performance while the latter is performed at predetermined points in time.
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Lindqvist, B.H. (2008). Maintenance of Repairable Systems. In: Complex System Maintenance Handbook. Springer Series in Reliability Engineering. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-011-7_10
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