Estimating Availability for Systems with Redundancy, Spares and Installation Times

Abstract

This paper shows how to compute expected steady state system availability for a system with parallel redundancy, when there is a pool of spare components. There may be several systems supported by this same pool, which is managed by a supplier following an (S,S-1) inventory policy. Failures are exponential, but non-exponential resupply and installation times are considered.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1981
Accession Number
ADA099026

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People

  • Alan J. Kaplan

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Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Availability
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Difference Equations
  • Engineering
  • Equations
  • Equations Of State
  • Industrial Engineering
  • Inventory
  • Logistics
  • Logistics Management
  • Management Engineering
  • Operations Research
  • Probability
  • Steady State

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  • Logistics and Supply Chain Management.
  • Statistical inference.