The competition and regulatory environment imposes the need for effective use of resources. Using stochastic dynamic programming the optimal maintenance strategy was obtained, see[1]. The approach was illustrated using data from the water industry. Obviously the optimal strategy will be affected by the costs and the effect of maintenance. In a previous paper the impact of costs were considered, In this paper the effect of maintenance is explored. It is found that ageing has an important effect on the optimal maintenance strategy.
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