On some characteristics of quality for systems operating in a random environment
Ji Hwan Cha and
Maxim Finkelstein
Journal of Risk and Reliability, 2019, vol. 233, issue 2, 257-267
Abstract:
We consider systems that are operating in a random environment modeled by an external shock process. Performance of a system is characterized by a quality (output) function that is decreasing (due to degradation) in the absence of shocks. The important feature of our model is that shocks affect the failure rate of a system directly, and at the same time, each shock contributes to the additional decrease in the quality function forming the corresponding stochastic process. Expectations (unconditional and conditional on survival) and variability of this process are analyzed. Some monotonicity properties of the conditional quality function are discussed and expressions for the future values of this function are derived.
Keywords: Quality characteristic; expected quality; random environment; shock process; failure rate process (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1177/1748006X18775901
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