Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, Vol.39, No.4, 977-981, 2000
On the impact of corrective maintenance in the design of sensor networks
This paper discusses the incorporation of the corrective maintenance cost of instruments as part of the objective function. It is also shown that, in the presence of repairable instruments, the availability of a variable, instead of its reliability, should be used as a constraint. The impact of the corrective repair rate on the solution of the problem is investigated.