On the coefficients of variation of uptime and downtime in manufacturing equipment

Mathematical Problems in Engineering

Volumn 2005, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-6

  Li, Jingshan ^a   Meerkov, Semyon M ^b  

^a GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

^b University of Michigan   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MACHINE TOOLS; PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RANDOM PROCESSES; REPAIR; THROUGHPUT;

COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; MACHINE DOWNTIME; MACHINE UPTIME; MANUFACTURING EQUIPMENT;

PRODUCTION ENGINEERING;

EID: 17444380674     PISSN: 1024123X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/MPE.2005.1     Document Type: Article

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