Maintenance strategy by controlled consumption of operational potential

The main groups of processes executed during exploitation phase of a machine are service and operating processes. The main objective of the operating processes is a generation of machine's operation effects. While an objective of the service processes is a reconstruction of object's exploitation properties, which are necessary to proper machine operation. In the case of complex, crucial exploitation systems the service and operating processes can't beperformed in the same time. Then, it is necessary to implement adeąuate strategy of exploitation processes execution. According to carried out studies it was stated that the service and operating processes could be expressed as functions of an operational potential amount included in an exploitation system. It was also stated that execution of the exploitation processes according to the optimal maintenance strategy guaranties minimisation of an operational potential amount untransformed to effects of the exploitation system operation. In the case of the analysed class of complex, crucial, strategic exploitation systems the start moment of the service processes is defined a several months in advance. In this paper, the maintenance strategy by controlled consumption of operational potential is presented. The strategy is formulated as an optimal method of exploitation processes execution. It is especially useful in the case of complex systems where it should be make a most of the operational potential