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Management,"Operatione Research & Management Science
One of the difficult decisions facing managers responsible for maintai
ning motor vehicle and construction equipment fleets is whether or not
to implement oil analysis programs. We developed a simple probability
model for the Southern Company which enables their maintenance manage
rs to evaluate various maintenance strategies including options that i
ncorporate oil sampling programs. The model has been used to determine
optimum policies for five classes of equipment and to assess the sens
itivity of these results to various changes in the model parameters.