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	การหาค่าเหมาะสมที่สุดของการบำรุงรักษา	แบบจำลองการเสื่อมสภาพ
สาขาวิชา	ความเชื่อถือได้	ความเชื่อถือได้
ตระกูล	Process / pipeline	Regression model
ปีกำเนิด	2002	1998
ผู้ริเริ่ม	Hongzhou Wang	Meeker, Escobar & Lu
ประเภท	decision optimization framework	Stochastic degradation path model
แหล่งต้นตำรับ	Wang, H. (2002). A survey of maintenance policies of deteriorating systems. European Journal of Operational Research, 139(3), 469–489.	Meeker, W. Q., Escobar, L. A., & Lu, C. J. (1998). Accelerated degradation tests: modeling and analysis. Technometrics, 40(2), 89–99.
ชื่อเรียกอื่น	Optimal Maintenance Policy, Preventive Maintenance Scheduling, Predictive Maintenance Optimization, Bakım Optimizasyonu	Accelerated Degradation Testing, Degradation Path Models, Performance Degradation Analysis, Bozunma Modelleri
ที่เกี่ยวข้อง	3	3
สรุป	Maintenance Optimization is a quantitative framework for determining the timing, type, and frequency of maintenance actions—preventive, predictive, or corrective—that minimize total cost or expected downtime over a system's operational life. Systematic formulations were consolidated by Hongzhou Wang (2002), whose survey unified age-replacement, block-replacement, and imperfect-repair policies under a common cost-rate structure applicable to deteriorating systems across engineering and operations management.	Degradation models estimate product lifetime by tracking measurable performance characteristics—such as crack length, light output, or insulation resistance—over time rather than waiting for outright failure. Introduced in rigorous form by Meeker, Escobar, and Lu (1998), these models fit a stochastic degradation path to repeated measurements and define failure as the first time the characteristic crosses a predetermined threshold, enabling reliable lifetime inference from accelerated test data with very few or no observed failures.