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: 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 purpose of this paper is to deal with a linear multi-state sliding window coherent system which generalizes the consecutive k-out-of-r-from-n:F system in the multi-state case. The system has n linearly ordered multi-state elements consisting of m parallel independent and...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to study various reliability measures like reliability, mean time to failure (MTTF) and sensitivity of transformer including different parameters of insulating oil/paper as health index. Design/methodology/approach: The reliability characteristics of...

Purpose – The main aim of this paper is to improve reliability characteristics namely availability, mean time to failure (MTTF), and expected profit of a complex system. Design/methodology/approach – The paper discusses the availability of a complex system, which consists of two independent...

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...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to evaluate various reliability measures like availability, reliability, mean time to failure and profit function. Design/methodology/approach The authors present a novel method for availability analysis of an engineering system incorporating waiting time to...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to compute the signature reliability of the coherent systems. Design/methodology/approach The considered k -out-of- n coherent system consists of n number of elements connected in series. With the help of these systems, the authors have evaluated a...