Reliability of Manufacturing Equipment in Complex Environments

Authors

Jeffrey P. Kharoufeh
Steven M. Cox
Mark E. Oxley, Air Force Institute of TechnologyFollow

Document Type

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.

Comments

Copyright statement: © 2011 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.

DOI

10.1007/s10479-011-0839-x

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