Design of optimum component test plans in the demonstration of diverse system performance measures

Emre Yamangil, İ. Altınel, Bora Çekyay, Orhan Feyziog[gtilde]lu and Süleyman Özekici

IISE Transactions, 2011, vol. 43, issue 7, 535-546

Abstract: While component-level tests have many advantages over system-level tests, the actual protection offered in making inferences about system reliability is not the same as what is expected. Thus, a significant proportion of research has concentrated on the design of system-based component test plans that also have minimum cost. This article extends those previous studies by considering two additional system performance measures: expected system lifetime and system availability. After explicitly expressing these performance measures as a function of failure rates for various system types, the component testing problem is formulated as a semi-infinite linear programming problem and solved with a column generation technique incorporating signomial geometric programming. Several numerical examples are presented that provide insight on the model parameters.

Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1080/0740817X.2010.523768

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