D. Pandey et al., STOCHASTIC MODELING OF A POWERLOOM PLANT WITH COMMON-CAUSE FAILURE, HUMAN ERROR AND OVERLOADING EFFECT, International Journal of Systems Science, 27(3), 1996, pp. 309-313
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System Science","Computer Science Theory & Methods","Operatione Research & Management Science
The paper stochastic modelling of a powerloom plant consisting of two
units A and B(n) connected in series. Unit B(n) has n components in pa
rallel redundancy that carry threads of different varieties/colours to
unit A. Unit A is strategic unit that weaves these threads together a
nd produces a long piece of cloth of standard size. failure of A makes
the entire system fail,whereas failure of k-out-of-n components of B
lets the system continue to work with overload on unit B and loss of q
uality of the product. The choice of k needs to be decided by the qual
ity control. The whole system has been considered as a one plus k-out-
of-n unit system, and its reliability analysis has been performed, wit
h due consideration to common cause failure, human error and the overl
oading effect. Results of Dhillon (1992) have been deduced as particul
ar cases of our result.