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However, some PM efforts are disorganized, unpractical, and unscientific, leading to prolonged downtime and significant cost losses. The challenge in creating PM plans is exacerbated by the asymmetry between maintenance and failure data. Therefore, focusing on single-unit mechanical equipment, the reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) idea is put forward to find out the key parts to implement preventive maintenance, and PM models are built to draw up a more reasonable PM plan. Such strategies aim to lower maintenance costs and enhance economic performance. Data on past maintenance and failures are analyzed to determine the life distribution and maintenance effect functions, helping to quantify the uncertainty caused by data asymmetry. Two PM optimization models considering time-varying failure rates are proposed: one focuses on minimizing costs, while the other aims to maximize availability. A PM plan example is demonstrated using a component from a tire-building machine including six parts, which proves the validity of the models. The availability results of two parts corresponding to the maintenance strategy obtained by the availability maximization model are above 0.99, and the results of total costs per unit time of the remaining four parts obtained by the cost minimization model are under 5.69.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/sym16010016","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,12,22]],"date-time":"2023-12-22T01:19:42Z","timestamp":1703207982000},"page":"16","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":19,"title":["Reliability-Centered Preventive Maintenance Optimization for a Single-Component Mechanical Equipment"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"16","author":[{"given":"Yaojun","family":"Liu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Wuhu State-Owned Factory of Machining, Wuhu 241000, China"},{"name":"College of Automation Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210002, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yuhua","family":"Tang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Lunar Exploration and Space Engineering Center (LESEC), Beijing 100097, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ping","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Automation Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210002, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Xiaolin","family":"Song","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Wuhu State-Owned Factory of Machining, Wuhu 241000, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Meilin","family":"Wen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Reliability and Systems Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China"},{"name":"The Key Laboratory on Reliability and Environmental Engineering Technology, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,12,21]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"90","DOI":"10.1287\/opre.8.1.90","article-title":"Optimum Preventive Maintenance Policies","volume":"8","author":"Richard","year":"1960","journal-title":"Oper. 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