NDLI: System availability under redundancy sharing of standby components

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Tongdan Jin Wei Xie Haitao Liao Otieno, W.
Copyright Year	2015
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Syst. & Ind. Eng., Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA (Wei Xie; Haitao Liao) \|\| Ingram Sch. of Eng., Texas State Univ., San Marcos, TX, USA (Tongdan Jin) \|\| Dept. of Ind. & Manuf. Eng., Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, USA (Otieno, W.)
Abstract	Conventional approaches to system availability assurance usually revolve around reliability-redundancy allocation and spare parts provisioning. This paper proposes a new scheme called redundancy sharing to enhance the availability of k-out-of-n:G systems. Under the new scheme, hot standby components in one system can be transferred to other systems for which the number of functional components drops below k. Although redundancy sharing is frequently practiced in private and defense industries, the underlying theory is rarely investigated in literature. This paper makes an early attempt to estimate the system availability considering redundancy sharing, and further discuss its potential benefits to the overall fleet availability. We strive to achieve two objectives: 1) estimating system availability by jointly considering redundancy sharing, redundancy allocation, and spare parts inventory; and 2) demonstrating the effectiveness and benefit of redundancy sharing in a variety of operating conditions. Continuous-time Markov model and multi-echelon inventory theory are employed to characterize the operation and maintenance of small and large fleets, respectively.
Starting Page	1
Ending Page	6
File Size	447057
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
e-ISBN	9781479967032
DOI	10.1109/RAMS.2015.7105068
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2015-01-26
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Availability Redundancy Maintenance engineering Mathematical model Resource management Aggregates repairable inventory redundancy sharing redundancy allocation k-out-of-n systems
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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