Optimal Redundancy and Availability Allocation in Multistage Systems

1 August 1971

journal article
Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Vol. R-20 (3) , 182-185
https://doi.org/10.1109/TR.1971.5216123

Abstract

This investigation presents a method for determining the optimum mean time between failures (MTBF), mean time to repair (MTTR), and the number of redundant units to use in a multistage system to achieve a given availability at minimum cost. The method (basically a dynamic programming algorithm) is illustrated by a three-stage example.

Keywords

AVAILABILITY
COST FUNCTION
REDUNDANCY
TIME MEASUREMENT
PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE
DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING
HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS
RELIABILITY THEORY
RELIABILITY ENGINEERING
FABRICATION

This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:

Reliability Improvement through Redundancy at Various System Levels
IBM Journal of Research and Development, 1958