Modelling a general standby system and evaluation of its performance |
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| Authors: | Ji Hwan Cha Jie Mi Won Young Yun |
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| Institution: | 1. Division of Mathematical Sciences, Pukyong National University, Busan 608‐737, Korea;2. Department of Statistics, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199, U.S.A.;3. Department of Industrial Engineering, Pusan National University, Busan 609‐735, Korea |
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| Abstract: | Redundancy or standby is a technique that has been widely applied to improving system reliability and availability in system design. In this paper, a general method for modelling standby system is proposed and system performance measures are derived. It is shown that the proposed general standby system includes the cases of cold, hot and warm standby systems with units of exponential distribution, which were studied in the literature, as special cases. An optimal allocation problem for a standby system is also discussed. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
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| Keywords: | standby system cold hot and warm standby accelerated life test usual stochastic order delayed ageing process |
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