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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH
Volume 279, Issue 3, Pages 951-964Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2019.06.013
Keywords
Coherent systems; Minimal repair; Distorted distributions; Copula; Stochastic orders
Funding
- Ministerio de Economia, Industria y Competitividad of Spain [MTM2016-79943-P, MTM2017-89577-P]
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The minimal repair replacement is a reasonable assumption in many practical systems. Under this assumption a failed component is replaced by another one whose reliability is the same as that of the component just before the failure, i.e., a used component with the same age. In this paper we study the minimal repair in coherent systems. We consider both the cases of independent and dependent components. Three replacement policies are studied. In the first one, the first failed component in the system is minimally repaired while, in the second one, we repair the component which causes the system failure. A new technique based on the relevation transform is used to compute the reliability of the systems obtained under these replacement policies. In the third case, we consider the replacement policy which assigns the minimal repair to a fixed component in the system. We compare these three options under different stochastic criteria and for different system structures. In particular, we provide the optimal strategies for all the coherent systems with 1-4 independent and identically distributed components. (C) 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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