... to demonstrate this approach. Design/methodology/approach A majority of models used for estimation of availability of a complex system are based on the assumptions that the failure of the system is associated with only a few states, and the system does not face different operating conditions, repair actions...

...Stephen Boakye Twum; Elaine Aspinwall Purpose System reliability optimisation in today’s world is critical to ensuring customer satisfaction, businesses competitiveness, secure and uninterrupted delivery of services and safety of operations. Among many systems configurations, complex systems...

... fields for system signature and characterized the signature of the coherent system. Boland (2001) showed that signature T_l of the system can be expressed as in lth smallest lifetime n components as: Complex system Universal generating function...