...Yangfan Li; Yingjie Zhang; Lin Zhang; Bochao Dai Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the changes in its importance due to the maintenance and repair of components. Design/methodology/approach In this paper, a concept of time-varying importance measure is proposed to solve...

... and quantitative information related to system performance the authors have adopted failure mode effect analysis (FMEA) and Petrinets (PNs), the well‐known tools for reliability analysis, to build an integrated framework aimed at helping the reliability and maintenance managers in decision‐making. Findings...