IEEE Transactions on Reliability · 1987 · 75 citations · 3 references
ComputingIndustrial EngineeringSystems EngineeringFault-tolerant SystemsMaintenance EngineeringOptimizationAvailabilityAvailability EngineeringHigh AvailabilityMaintainability EngineeringMaintenance PolicyRedundancy ManagementAvailability ModelingAvailability ModellingAvailability OptimizationFailure Probability AnalysisMaintenance Availability AnalysisMaintenance ReliabilityReliability-based Maintenance
This paper considers a system with imperfect maintenance, ie, after maintenance the system may be either a) not changed, or b) failed, with certain probabilities. Formulas for the MTTF and the availability are obtained and the policy to maximize availability is derived. A numerical example applies these results to a triple redundant system.
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