被检测系统的可靠性和最优检测策略

研究被检测系统的一个模型,假定系统有4种运行状态(正常工作、异常工作、正常故障和异常故障)．系统故障时不需检测,系统工作时必须经过检测才能知道它是正常还是异常．系统开始工作后,每隔一段随机时间对它检测一次,直到系统故障或检测出系统处于异常状态为止．利用概率分析和随机模型的密度演化方法,导出了系统的一些新的可靠性指标和最优检测策略．     

修理设备可更换和修理延迟的两类故障状态并联可修系统

考虑两同型部件组成的并联可修系统,每个部件有两类故障状态,部件故障后修理有延迟,且修理设备在修理故障部件的过程中也可能发生故障.假定部件的寿命和修理设备的寿命服从指数分布,部件发生故障后的修理延迟时间、修理时间和修理设备故障后的更换时间均服从一般分布,利用马尔可夫更新过程理论和拉普拉斯变换工具,求得了系统有关的可靠性指标.     

修理设备可修修理延迟的N个部件串联系统的随机性状及可靠性分析北大核心CSCD

考虑N(N≥2)个同型部件串联可修系统的随机性状及修理设备的可靠性.假设修理设备在修理失效部件的过程中可能失效,失效后的修理设备需要立即修理,部件失效后需要一段随机的延迟修理时间.进一步假定系统失效后好的部件可能劣化.利用马尔科夫更新过程工具和Takács的方法,研究系统的随机性状并利用随机性状研究结果得到该系统修理设备在时刻t的失效概率以及修理设备在(O,t)内的故障次数和故障频度以及一些有意义的推论.     

修理设备可修修理延迟的N个部件串联系统的随机性状及可靠性分析

考虑N(N≥2)个同型部件串联可修系统的随机性状及修理设备的可靠性.假设修理设备在修理失效部件的过程中可能失效,失效后的修理设备需要立即修理,部件失效后需要一段随机的延迟修理时间.进一步假定系统失效后好的部件可能劣化.利用马尔科夫更新过程工具和Takács的方法,研究系统的随机性状并利用随机性状研究结果得到该系统修理设备在时刻t的失效概率以及修理设备在(O,t)内的故障次数和故障频度以及一些有意义的推论.     

修复率可变化的表决系统可靠性分析

研究了具有维修速率可变化的k/n(G)表决可修系统,其中部件的工作时间和修理时间均服从负指数分布.开始时,当系统中的故障部件数小于某一阈值L时,修理工以较低的维修率修理故障的部件.如果修理工修理工作进展不顺利,故障部件数增加到阈值L时,将立即以较快的速度修理故障部件,此状态一直持续到系统中没有故障部件为止.使用马尔可夫过程理论和分析方法,得到了系统可用度、故障频度、系统首次故障前的平均时间等指标的表达式.进一步,讨论了不同条件下系统相关指标随系统参数变化的情况,并通过对特殊情形的讨论数值验证了所得结果的正确性.     

部件有两类故障状态且修理设备可更换的并联可修系统分析

本文考虑由两个同型部件组成的并联可修系统,每个部件有两类故障状态,部件故障后立即修理,且修理设备在修理故障部件的过程中也可能发生故障.假定部件的寿命和修理设备的寿命均服从指数分布,部件发生故障后的修理时间和修理设备故障后的更换时间均服从一般分布,利用马尔可夫更新过程理论,求得系统的有关可靠性指标和修理设备的闲期长度和"广义忙期"长度等一系列结果.     

修理设备可更换且修理延迟的两相同部件冷储备可修系统(Ⅱ)

在文[1]的基础上,本文研究了修理有延迟和修理设备可更换的两单元冷储备可修系统.在假定单元的寿命服从指数分布、修理时间和延迟时间服从一般分布、修理设备的寿命和故障后的更换时间服从指数分布下,通过定义修理设备的"广义忙期",使用更新过程理论和全概率分解技术,提出一种新的分析技巧,讨论了修理设备的一些可靠性指标,获得了如修理设备的可用度和故障次数等可靠性结果.     

有优先权三不同部件温贮备可修系统可靠性分析

针对由三个不同部件,一个完全可靠的开关和一个修理设备组成的温贮备可修系统,建立了部件的工作寿命,贮备寿命,工作故障后的修理时间和贮备故障后的修理时间均服从不同参数的指数分布的数学模型,利用Markov型可修系统的研究方法,并采用MATLAB软件给出了该系统的首次故障前的平均时间、可用度和故障频率等可靠性指标的表达式.     

专职修理工多重休假且修理设备可更换的k/n(G)表决系统研究

讨论专职修理工多重休假,修理设备可发生失效且可更换的k/n(G)表决可修系统.当系统中没有故障部件时,专职修理工开始一次休假,在此期间,若有工作部件发生故障,则立即指派普通修理工修理故障部件,一直持续到系统中无故障部件或专职修理工休假回来.利用马尔可夫过程理论和矩阵解法,给出了系统瞬态和稳态下的可用度和故障频度、可靠度、系统首次故障前的平均时间、修理设备处于更换状态的概率等指标的表达式.在此基础上,基于不同的初始条件研究了相关指标随时间的变化情况.最后,特殊情形的讨论验证了所得结果的正确性.     

具有修理延迟的两不同部件冷贮备系统的可靠性分析

研究了有修理延迟的两个不同部件和两个修理工组成的冷贮备系统.假定部件的工作寿命服从一般分布,故障后的延迟修理时间和修理时间均服从指数分布.利用马尔可夫更新过程、拉普拉斯变换和拉普拉斯-司梯阶变换工具,得到了系统的首次故障前时间、可用度和平均故障次数等可靠性指标.     

Mixture representation for the residual lifetime of a repairable system

In this paper, we consider a repairable system in which two types of failures can occur on each failure. One is a minor failure that can be corrected with minimal repair, whereas the other type is a catastrophic failure that destroys the system. The total number of failures until the catastrophic failure is a positive random variable with a given probability vector. It is assumed that there is some partial information about the failure status of the system, and then various properties of the conditional probability of the system failure are studied. Mixture representations of the reliability function for the system in terms of the reliability function of the residual lifetimes of record values are obtained. Some stochastic properties of the conditional probabilities and the residual lifetimes of two systems are finally discussed. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Allocation of a relevation in redundancy problems

The relevation can be considered as a replacement or repair policy in reliability, in which, when a unit fails, the unit is restored to a working condition just previous to the failure, in the sense that the age of the unit is not changed but the failure rate changes. It can be also considered as a generalization of the minimal repair policy and the load‐sharing model. In this paper, we consider the problem of where to allocate a relevation in a system to increase the reliability of the system and the particular cases of load‐sharing and minimal repair policies.     

Analysis of a system with minimal repair and its application to replacement policy

The periodic replacement with minimal repair at failures is studied by many authors, however, there is not a clear definition for minimal repair. This paper defines a minimal repair in the term of the failure rate and devices some probability quantities and reliability properties. As an application of these results, the replacement model where a system is replaced at time T or at nth failure are considered and the optimum policies are discussed.     

Periodical replacement problem without assuming minimal repair

In this paper, a periodical replacement problem with a general repair is considered where a system is replaced at only scheduled times kT (k = 0,1,…) and is repaired whenever it fails. By general repair, we mean that repair brings the state of the system to a certain better state. A stochastic model to describe the operation in time of a repairable system which is maintained by a general repair is developed. The model contains the minimal repair case in which repair restores a system to its functioning condition just prior to failure. The sensitivity of replacement policies under a general repair to derivation from the minimal repair assumption is numerically examined. It will be seen that the policies are insensitive when the deterioration of the system is not fast and the replacement cost is high relative to the repair cost. The minimal repair assumption is then justified for such situations.     

Optimal Continuous Policies for Repair and Replacement

This paper investigates the problem of finding optimal replacement policies for equipment subject to failures with randomly distributed repair costs, the degree of reliability of the equipment being considered as a state of a Markov process. Algorithms have been devised to find optimal combined policies both for preventive replacement and for replacement in case of failure by using repair-limit strategies.First a simple procedure to obtain an optimal discrete policy is described. Then an algorithm is formulated in order to calculate an optimal continuous policy: it is shown how the optimal repair limit is the solution to an ordinary differential equation, and how the value of the repair limit determines the optimal preventive replacement policy.     

Optimal economic production quantity policy for imperfect process with imperfect repair and maintenance

This study integrates maintenance and production programs with the economic production quantity (EPQ) model for an imperfect process involving a deteriorating production system with increasing hazard rate: imperfect repair and rework upon failure (out of control state). The imperfect repair performs some restorations and restores the system to an operating state (in-control state), but leaves its failure until perfect preventive maintenance (PM) is performed. There are two types of PM, namely imperfect PM and perfect PM. The probability that perfect PM is performed depends on the number of imperfect maintenance operations performed since the last renewal cycle. Mathematical formulas are obtained for deriving the expected total cost. For the EPQ model, the optimum run time, which minimizes the total cost, is discussed. Various special cases are considered, including the maintenance learning effect. Finally, a numerical example is presented to illustrate the effects of PM, setup, breakdown and holding costs.     

Replacement Policies under Minimal Repair

In many situations where system failures occur the concept of ‘minimal repair’ is important. A minimal repair occurs when the failed system is not treated so as to return it to ‘as new’ condition but is instead returned to the average condition for a working system of its age. Examples include complex systems where the repair or replacement of one component does not materially affect the condition of the whole system.For a system with decreasing reliability it will become increasingly expensive to maintain operation by minimal repairs, and the question then arises as to when the entire system should be replaced. We consider cases where the failure distribution can be modelled by the Weibull distribution. Two policies have been suggested for this case. One is to replace at a fixed time and the other is to replace at a fixed number of failures. We consider a third policy, to replace at the next failure after a fixed time, and show that it is optimal.Expressions to decide the replacement point and the cost of this policy are derived. Unfortunately these do not give rise to explicit representations, and so they are used to provide extensive numerical comparisons of the policies in a search for effective explicit approximations. Conclusions are drawn from these comparisons regarding the relative effectiveness of the policies and approximations.     

The average optimality of a repair-limit replacement policy

We consider a minimal-repair and replacement problem of a reliability system whose state at a failure is described by a pair of two attributes, i.e., the total number of its past failures and the current failure level. It is assumed that the system is bothered by more frequent and more costly failures as time passes. Our problem is to find and/or characterize a minimal-repair and replacement policy of minimizing the long-run average expected maintenance cost per unit time over the infinite time horizon. Formulating the problem as a semi-Markov decision process, we show that a repairlimit replacement policy is average optimal. That is, for each total number of past system failures, there exists a threshold, called a repair limit, such that it is optimal to repair minimally if the current failure level is lower than the repair limit, and to replace otherwise. Furthermore, the repair limit is decreasing in the total number of past system failures.     

Availability analysis of crank-case manufacturing in a two-wheeler automobile industry

The paper describes the availability of crank-case manufacturing system in an automobile industry. The units discussed here fail either directly from normal working state or indirectly through partial failure state. The machines are subjected to both preventive and corrective maintenance. Failure and repair times of the units are independent. The problem is formulated using probability consideration and supplementary variable technique. The system of equations governing the working of system consists of ordinary as well as partial differential equations. Lagrange method and Runge–Kutta method is used to solve partial differential equation and ordinary differential equation respectively. The study reveals that successful program of preventive and routine maintenance will reduce equipment failures, extend the life of the equipment, and increase the system availability to considerable margin.