GoldSim has the capability to simulate maintenance of your component. There are two types of maintenance that you can model in GoldSim:
•Preventive maintenance can be used to repair failure modes and set their FMCVs (i.e., their "age") back to a specified value. Preventive maintenance is simulated by defining one or more "PM failure modes".
By default, any failure mode that is in a failed state is automatically repaired by PM events (although you can override this for any given failure mode and indicate that it is not to be repaired). You can also specify whether PM events repair unfailed failure modes (by resetting their FMCV). By default, this does not occur.
•Replacement automatically repairs all failure modes and sets their FMCVs to zero (i.e., new). By definition, failure modes are always modified by the replacement (and you cannot override this). Replacement is simulated by either defining one or more "Replacement failure modes", or by directly triggering a replacement event (using the Replace trigger in an element's main properties page).
Modeling maintenance is discussed in detail in the topics below.
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Simulating Preventive Maintenance as a Failure Mode