QUALITATIVE IMPORTANCE MEASURES OF SYSTEMS COMPONENTS – A NEW APPROACH AND ITS APPLICATIONS

Autor: Bogusz Wiśnicki, Katarzyna Gawdzińska, Leszek Chybowski
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Management Systems in Production Engineering, Vol 24, Iss 4, Pp 237-246 (2016)
ISSN: 2299-0461
Popis: The paper presents an improved methodology of analysing the qualitative importance of components in the functional and reliability structures of the system. We present basic importance measures, i.e. the Birnbaum’s structural measure, the order of the smallest minimal cut-set, the repetition count of an i-th event in the Fault Tree and the streams measure. A subsystem of circulation pumps and fuel heaters in the main engine fuel supply system of a container vessel illustrates the qualitative importance analysis. We constructed a functional model and a Fault Tree which we analysed using qualitative measures. Additionally, we compared the calculated measures and introduced corrected measures as a tool for improving the analysis. We proposed scaled measures and a common measure taking into account the location of the component in the reliability and functional structures. Finally, we proposed an area where the measures could be applied.
Databáze: OpenAIRE