Estimation of repairable system availability within fixed time horizon

Henryk Maciejewski and Dariusz Caban

Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 2008, vol. 93, issue 1, 100-106

Abstract: The paper presents an efficient approach to estimating the availability of a repairable system observed within a fixed time horizon, which is regarded as a random variable over range [0,1]. A Beta distribution based approximation of this characteristic is proposed. The presented results are derived from Monte Carlo simulation and statistical analysis of the simulation results. Numerical examples are also provided to illustrate the practical impact of this approach.

Keywords: Fixed time horizon availability; System uptime; Service level agreement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2006.10.016

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