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Nov 3, 2022DOI:
10.4314/njt.v41i4.12Keywords:
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Probabilistic modeling of failure times and replacement maintenance of television transmitter system
Abstract
Assessment of the state of health and working condition of equipment in the production and service industries is a necessary condition for effective maintenance. Therefore, this work models the failure times and other operational characteristics of television transmitter system with sudden but non-constant failure rate to enhance smooth operation of the system. The failure times was shown to follow lognormal distribution with mean; ?̅=7.6 and variance; ?2=1.4. The Probability functions, hazard, reliability functions/indices, availability and maintainability factors were obtained to described the failure behaviour and ascertain the performance efficiency of the system. Also, a preventive replacement (PR) model for the system yielded an optimal replacement time of 189.112 hours at a minimum total cost of 178.134 naira per unit time. A combination of both estimates of the reliability indices and the PR model is recommended to provide complementary information for efficient maintenance operation of the TV transmitter and similar systems.
