Reliability importance of components in a complex system

Proceedings of the Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 6-11

  Wang, Wendai ^a   Loman, James ^a   Vassiliou, Pantelis ^b  

^a GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b RELIASOFT CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Complex system; Criticality indices; Discrete event simulation; Importance measure; Repairable system; Sensitivity analysis; System reliability

Indexed keywords

CRITICALITY INDICES; DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION; IMPORTANCE MEASURE; REPAIRABLE SYSTEMS; SYSTEM RELIABILITY; ANALYTICAL APPROACH; COMPLEX REPAIRABLE SYSTEMS; RELIABILITY BLOCK DIAGRAMS; RELIABILITY IMPORTANCE; RELIABILITY IMPROVEMENT;

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC INDUSTRY; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; TREES (MATHEMATICS); DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; MAINTAINABILITY; QUALITY CONTROL; RELIABILITY; RELIABILITY THEORY;

LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 2342646701     PISSN: 0149144X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (5)

1. L. M. Leemis, Reliability - Probabilistic Models and Statistical Methods, Prentice Hall, Inc., 1995.
2. th Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, pp. 89-95, 2003.
3. th Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, pp. 456-459, 2002.
4. ReliaSoft Corporation, System Analysis Reference: Reliability Availability & Optimization, ReliaSoft Publishing, 2003.
5. Z. W. Birnbaum, "On the Importance of Different Components in a Multicomponent System", Multivariate Analysis - II, Edited by P. R. Krishnaiah, Academic Press, pp. 581-592, 1969.