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Birnbaum Importance in Solving Component Assignment Problems

by Xiaoyan Zhu, PhD; Way Kuo, PhD; Qingzhu Yao

As an important type of reliability optimization problems, the component assignment problem (CAP) is to find the optimal arrangement of n available components to n positions of a system such that the resulting system reliability is maximized...

  • Filetype: pdf
  • Publish date: 2011-01
  • Keywords:Failure Rate, Product Reliability, RAMS 2011 Proceedings, Reliability Block Diagram, Reliability Model, Reliability Analysis/Prediction/Estimation, Design Reliability

Optimal Spares Analysis for a Networking System Manufacturer

by Huffman, Duane L.; Crytzer, Ryan

In this paper, we show how this process was modeled using a software analysis tool that supports reliability block diagram (RBD) analysis with spares optimization. The easily configured model is capable of performing spares optimizations for multiple.....

  • Filetype: pdf
  • Publish date: 2011-01
  • Keywords:RAMS 2011 Proceedings, Product Reliability, Reliability Model, Reliability Block Diagram, Warranty

Allocating Redundancy with Reusable Patterns for Optimal Hierarchical-System Reliability and Series MTBF

by Rafael Arellano; Meng-Lai Yin, PhD; John Angus, PhD

This study is motivated by the design of a mission-critical system where both reliability and maintainability are required and quick assessment turnaround is crucial...

  • Filetype: pdf
  • Copyright: 2011
  • Keywords:Failure Rate, RAMS 2011 Proceedings, Reliability Analysis/Prediction/Estimation, Reliability Model, Reliability Block Diagram

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