Title :
A Reparable 3-State Device
Author :
Proctor, C.L. ; Singh, Balbir
Author_Institution :
Department of Industrial Engineering//Western Michigan University//Kalamazoo, Michigan 49001 USA.
Abstract :
A device is said to have three states if it has one good state and two mutually exclusive failure modes; e.g., in one failure mode, it operates when it shouldn´t, in the other it doesn´t operate when it should. Some examples of such devices include a fluid flow valve, an automatic machine, and an explosive. A Markov model is developed to obtain the availability function of such a device.
Keywords :
Aerospace industry; Assembly systems; Associate members; Availability; Difference equations; Explosives; Fluid flow; Reliability engineering; Reliability theory; Switches; 3-State device; Availability analysis;
Journal_Title :
Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TR.1976.5215044
