Reliability of Manufacturing Equipment in Complex Environments
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Article
Publication Date
10-2013
Abstract
We present two stochastic failure models for the reliability evaluation of manufacturing equipment that degrades due to its complex operating environment. The first model examines the case when the environment is a temporally nonhomogeneous continuous-time Markov chain, and the second assumes the environment is a temporally homogeneous semi-Markov process on a finite space. Derived are transform expressions for the lifetime distributions. A few examples are provided to illustrate the main results.
Source Publication
Annals of Operations Research
Recommended Citation
Kharoufeh, J.P., Cox, S.M. & Oxley, M.E. Reliability of manufacturing equipment in complex environments. Ann Oper Res 209, 231–254 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-011-0839-x
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