... the high operation and maintenance costs. To decrease complexity, and structure the maintenance strategy developing process, systems engineering principles are used. Findings The framework facilitates integration of fragmented but valuable information from different disciplines in the development...

... of the robot‐safety system availability when the robot working with at least one safety unit. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Maintenance Robotics Systems engineering Safety Reliability management Failure (mechanical) The occurrence of common‐cause failures is a serious...

... the coherent fault trees is discussed. When the repair facility is added into the nets, the dynamic behavior of the repairable system can be studied through the nets by using equivalent Markov chains. © MCB UP Limited 1998 Modelling Reliability Systems engineering The three conditions can...