... system Maintenance reliability Star topology Reliability theory has caused great anxiety in recent years, because high-tech industry processes, including computer networking with increasing levels of sophistication, nowadays comprise most engineering systems (Verma et al., 2010 ; Ram...

... (MTTR) and the other is a limit for the maximum repair time. The maintainability of a component is calculated as: Equation 3 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Urea industry Petri net Reliability Availability Maintainability Maintenance reliability Reliability management India...

... and fuzziness is associated with it. This uncertainty can be better handled with fuzzy logic to arrive at estimating appropriate possibility level instead of probability due to scarcity of required inputs. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Fuzzy logic Maintenance reliability Risk analysis...

... the copula of a distribution as being a translation invariant representation of the dependence structure of that distribution. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Service failures Maintenance reliability Cost analysis Many authors (Gupta and Agarwal, 1984 ; Gupta and Sharma...

... the number of components. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Maintenance reliability Safety Space vehicles Space transport Assessment NASA and its contractors are currently in the process of the developing the Orion spacecraft, the space transportation system that will replace...

...” models the individual SRA lifetime distributions. Maintenance reliability Data analysis Risk analysis Failure (mechanical) In large complex systems, the equipment is often divided into subassemblies based on the echelon of maintenance responsible for replacing or repairing the subassembly...

... Maintenance reliability In recent years, there has been heightened interest in improving the reliability of products. Increasingly intense global competition and higher consumer expectations for reliable products are deriving this interest. In order to remain profitable, manufacturers are being...

... Markov processes Tunnels Maintenance reliability Hong Kong Types 1 and 3 are for discrete time space. They are not appropriate for long‐run availability analysis. Type 4 considers cases with continuous state and time spaces. This type of process is suitable for aging analysis (Ng, 1996...

... processes Runge‐Katta methods Maintenance reliability The reliability and long run availability of the system can be increased by taking some of its components as standby using perfect switching. The analysis of the reliability and long run availability of an industry can help its management...

...‐Wilcoxon tests. © MCB UP Limited 1997 Maintenance reliability Statistical process control Statistics Tests A common problem in industry is to compare the “life to failure” distributions of two batches of equipment. These batches often represent equipments maintained under different...