Badía, F. G.; Berrade, M. D.; Campos, Clemente A. Optimization of inspection intervals based on cost. (English) Zbl 1024.90030 J. Appl. Probab. 38, No. 4, 872-881 (2001). Summary: We present a new inspection policy useful when testing is needed to detect failures of a single-unit system. It is supposed that tests may fail and give an erroneous result. The inspection policy minimizing cost per unit of time for an infinite time span is also discussed. In addition, we study the behaviour of the optimum policy for some time to failure distributions often assumed in reliability: exponential and Pareto. Cited in 10 Documents MSC: 90B25 Reliability, availability, maintenance, inspection in operations research 60K10 Applications of renewal theory (reliability, demand theory, etc.) Keywords:maintenance; reliability; renewal processes; optimum policy PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{F. G. Badía} et al., J. Appl. Probab. 38, No. 4, 872--881 (2001; Zbl 1024.90030) Full Text: DOI