A Study of time-between-events control chart for the monitoring of regularly maintained systems

Quality and Reliability Engineering International

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 805-819

  Khoo, Michael B C ^a   Xie, M ^b  

^a SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Exponential distribution; Failure rate; Maintenance interval; Regular maintenance; Reliability monitoring; Time between events control chart; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

EXPONENTIAL DISTRIBUTION; FAILURE RATE; MAINTENANCE INTERVAL; REGULAR MAINTENANCE; RELIABILITY MONITORING; TIME-BETWEEN-EVENTS CONTROL CHART;

FLOWCHARTING; MAINTENANCE; PROCESS MONITORING; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL;

EID: 70350645451     PISSN: 07488017     EISSN: 10991638     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qre.977     Document Type: Article

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