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More on optimal allocation of components in coherent systems

Part of: Survival analysis and censored data Operations research and management science

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Fan C. Meng
Fan C. Meng*
Affiliation:
Academia Sinica
*
∗Postal address: Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan.
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Abstract

More applications of the principle for interchanging components due to Boland et al. (1989) in reliability theory are presented. In the context of active redundancy improvement we show that if two nodes are permutation equivalent then allocating a redundancy component to the weaker position always results in a larger increase in system reliability, which generalizes a previous result due to Boland et al. (1992). In the case of standby redundancy enhancement, we prove that a series (parallel) system is the only system for which standby redundancy at the component level is always more (less) effective than at the system level. Finally, the principle for interchanging components is extended from binary systems to the more complicated multistate systems.

Keywords

COHERENT SYSTEMACTIVE REDUNDANCYSTANDBY REDUNDANCYSTOCHASTIC ORDERLIKELIHOOD RATIO ORDERMULTISTATE SYSTEM

MSC classification

Primary: 62N05: Reliability and life testing
Secondary: 90B25: Reliability, availability, maintenance, inspection
Type
Research Papers
Information
Journal of Applied Probability , Volume 33 , Issue 2 , September 1996 , pp. 548 - 556
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1996 

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