Asymptotic Measures of System Performance under Alternative Operating Rules. I.

Abstract

This is the first part of a study of stochastic processes generated by failures and repairs of components in a series system. Selected asymptotic measures of system performance are calculated for a two component series system where failure of component 1 shuts off component 2 but not vice versa. Intuitively, it is best to shut off an operating component when the system is down. However, this is not correct if the component failure distribution is IFR (or more generally NBUE) and we wish to maximize the long run average of system uptimes. Part 2 uses the method of supplementary variables to obtain explicit results for important special cases. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1979
Accession Number
ADA078826

Entities

People

  • Esther Sid Hudes
  • Richard E. Barlow

Organizations

  • University of California, Berkeley

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Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Availability
  • California
  • Downtime
  • Industrial Engineering
  • Inequalities
  • Notation
  • Operations Research
  • Probability
  • Probability Distributions
  • Random Variables
  • Scientific Research
  • Security
  • Stationary
  • Stochastic Processes
  • United States
  • United States Government

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