Availability allocation through importance measures

International Journal of Quality and Reliability Management

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 643-657

  Barabady, Javad ^a   Kumar, Uday ^a  

^a LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Mean time between failures; Mean time to repair

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250312121     PISSN: 0265671X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02656710710757826     Document Type: Article

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