Reliability Modeling of Scheduled Maintenance Systems with Latent Failures

Autor: Samir Palnitkar, Tilak C. Sharma, Arun K. Somani
Rok vydání: 1998
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Zdroj: International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering. :359-371
ISSN: 1793-6446
0218-5393
DOI: 10.1142/s0218539398000303
Popis: Component redundancy is used to achieve high reliability and fault tolerance in many ultra-reliable systems. Moreover, redundant components can be checked and repaired at the end of periodic intervals of time, called maintenance check times. In such scheduled maintenance (SM) systems, multiple faults may occur and remain undetected because the effects of the faults on the system are masked by the redundant components. Furthermore, specific maintenance actions may be carried out at the end of each mission to guarantee that the system is not in certain specific or failed states. Accurate reliability computation depends on the appropriate modeling of the system. In this paper, we consider scheduled maintenance checks and conditional maintenance checks, and develop a methodology to analyze systems employing such maintenance strategy. We also describe a tool that we have developed using our algorithm. Examples are presented to prove the aptness of our method. We show that conventional technique vastly overestimates the unreliability of such systems. We also show that for the SM systems, our technique provides a more realistic estimate of reliability.
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