Reliability and maintainability allocation to minimize total cost of ownership in a series-parallel system

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part O: Journal of Risk and Reliability

Volumn 221, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 133-140

  Kumar, U Dinesh ^a   Ramirez Marquez J E ^b   Nowicki, D ^b   Verma, D ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT BANGALORE   (India)

^b STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

availability allocation; maintainability allocation; reliability allocation; series parallel systems; total cost of ownership

Indexed keywords

EID: 84990374161     PISSN: 1748006X     EISSN: 17480078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1243/1748006XJRR41     Document Type: Article

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