Technical Note—Fault Testing for a k -out-of- n System

Jonathan Halpern
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Jonathan Halpern: Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

Operations Research, 1974, vol. 22, issue 6, 1267-1271

Abstract: Butterworth [ Opns. Res. 20, 335–343 (1972)] has presented a sufficient condition for the optimality of a sequential testing procedure for k -out-of- n systems. The condition is fairly strong and therefore excludes several cases where in fact an optimal policy exists. This note presents an optimal sequential procedure for the k -out-of- n system with equal testing costs for all components, a case where Butterworth's sufficient condition is not satisfied.

Date: 1974
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