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Introduction and literature surveyMany maintenance strategies, policies and methods have been developed, which are aimed at making maintenance cheaper and more effective. Such programs have the minimization of costs, downtime and losses due to failure of critical objects of the equipment as their main objective. Cost minimization improves the effectiveness and profitability of the organization [1,2,9,12,13,20].For creation of the maintenance policies, well described data mining input is very important. [4].In recent years, useful models of preventive and predictive maintenance optimization with different complexity and applicability have been further developed.In the paper, [5] the authors proposed a quasi-periodic imperfect preventive maintenance policy. Finally, a real case study of preventive maintenance on Chinese diesel locomotives is examined to illustrate the proposed maintenance policy.The paper [6] proposes an approach in which preventive and failure replacement costs as well as inspection cost are taken into account to determine the optimal replacement policy and an age-based inspection scheme, such that the total average costs of replacements and inspections is minimized.Determination of the preventive effect of optimal replacement policies in the paper [8] is based on aging intensity and the cost ratio of failure and preventive replacements. One of its conclusions is that not every preventive maintenance is fully effective and a policy of, "run to failure" can be more effective (note: in some cases).The proposed model in the paper [10] takes into consideration the stochastic nature of equipment failures. The output from the model is a cost distribution against the time from which the minimum cost may be found for a particular period and this period is defined as the optimum lifespan of the machine part.The paper [11] considers periodic preventive maintenance policies for a deteriorating repairable system. On each failure, the system is repaired and, at the planned times, it is periodically maintained to improve its performance reliability. Most periodic preventive maintenance (PM) models for repairable systems have been studied assuming that the failure process between two PMs follows the nonhomogeneous Poisson process (NHPP), implying the minimal repair on each failure.The paper [14] regarding warranty policy considering three maintenance options for products with multiple failure modes also showed the broad usability of the Weibull distribution. This fact supports the decision of the authors to also use the Weibull function.The paper [15] presents a new mathematical function to model an improvement based on the ratio of maintenance and repair costs, and demonstrate how it outperforms fixed improvement factor models by analyzing the effectiveness in terms of cost and reliability of a system. Legát V, MošnA F, ALeš Z, JurčA V. Preventive maintenance models -higher operational reliability. eksploatacja i niezawodnosc - Maintenance and reliability 2017; 19 (1): 134-141, http://dx...