Purpose: In certain environments, the system may not fail completely, but undergoes degradation, and the system productivity might decrease. Meanwhile, at the same time, the system may be vulnerable to shocks. A single-unit system prone to degradation and shocks is proposed in this study, and...

Purpose: The purpose of the paper is to analyze reliability characteristics of batch service queuing system with a single server model that envisages Poisson input process and exponential service times under first come, first served (FCFS) queue discipline. Design/methodology/approach: With the...

Purpose: The present paper focuses on the evaluation of reliability and its characteristics (Mean time to failure and Sensitivity) of a k-out-of-n network. Design/methodology/approach: The minimal cuts of the network have been evaluated for different nodes in this paper, using an algorithm....

Purpose: To find the reliability characteristics of repairable weighted (u, v)- out-of-(x, y) system using the interval valued universal generating function (IUGF). Design/methodology/approach: In this paper (u, v)-out-of-(x, y) system is an extension of the k-out-of-n system. Here, the...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the reliability indices such as reliability, mean time to failure and sensitivity analysis. Design/methodology/approach A non-repairable multi-state complex system with two subsystems, namely, S 1 and S 2 , is studied. The subsystems S 1 and S 2...

Project schedule is the schematic arrangement of activities of a project, to be accomplished within a predefined timeline which is to be followed with the aim to finish the project in specified time. Though a project schedule is defined before the starting of a project, the project usually gets...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to evaluate various reliability measures like reliability, expected lifetime (mean time to failure), signature reliability and compare networks based on the different flows. Design/methodology/approach: The reliability characteristics of complex bridge...