THE AVAILABILITY OF INSPECTED SYSTEMS SUBJECT TO RANDOM DETERIORATION

Authors
KLUTKE GA WORTMAN MA AYHAN H
Citation
Ga. Klutke et al., THE AVAILABILITY OF INSPECTED SYSTEMS SUBJECT TO RANDOM DETERIORATION, Probability in the engineering and informational sciences, 10(1), 1996, pp. 109-118
Citations number
6
Categorie Soggetti
Operatione Research & Management Science","Engineering, Industrial","Statistic & Probability","Operatione Research & Management Science
Journal title
Probability in the engineering and informational sciences → ACNP
ISSN journal
02699648
Volume
10
Issue
1
Year of publication
1996
Pages
109 - 118
Database
ISI
SICI code
0269-9648(1996)10:1<109:TAOISS>2.0.ZU;2-P
Abstract
This paper examines the availability of an inspected system where the rate of deterioration is governed by an exogenous random environment. We develop a qualitative result that exposes the relationship among re maining life, deterioration, and repairs. This result requires no spec ific distributional assumptions. We use this result in developing a si mple bound on stationary availability. We investigate these relationsh ips numerically for a Markovian system and provide insights useful to practitioners in selecting an inspection process that guarantees a tar get availability.