Reliability Growth.
Abstract
In the paper, the author discusses, interprets, and illustrates the Birnbaum measure of the importance of each component in a coherent system. It is shown how this measure of component importance can be used to determine system reliability growth from component reliability growth. Finally, an algorithm is illustrated to calculate the optimum amount of effort to expend on improving individual component reliabilities so as to achieve a desired system reliability growth at minimum total cost for reliability growth. (Modified author abstract)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 1973
- Accession Number
- AD0768594
Entities
People
- Frank Proschan
Organizations
- Florida State University