[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in system reliability optimization driven by importance measures

S Si, J Zhao, Z Cai, H Dui - Frontiers of Engineering Management, 2020 - Springer
Abstract System reliability optimization problems have been widely discussed to maximize
system reliability with resource constraints. Birnbaum importance is a well-known method for …

Comparing with the joint importance under consideration of consecutive-k-out-of-n system structure changes

H Dui, T Tian, J Zhao, S Wu - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2022 - Elsevier
For a multi-component system, the impact of the alteration of components on the system
reliability often needs assessment. Existing importance measures, however, do not consider …

Importance measure construction and solving algorithm oriented to the cost-constrained reliability optimization model

M Liu, D Wang, J Zhao, S Si - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2022 - Elsevier
Importance measures are used to prioritize the system components for achieving high
efficiency and economy of reliability optimization. The existing importance measures pay …

Reliability optimization of linear consecutive-k-out-of-n: F systems driven by reconfigurable importance

D Wang, S Si, Z Cai, J Zhao - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2021 - Elsevier
As a typical kind of reconfigurable system, linear consecutive-k-out-of-n: F (Lin/Con/k/n: F)
systems have a wide application in some complex engineering systems, such as oil pipeline …

Linking component importance to optimisation of preventive maintenance policy

S Wu, Y Chen, Q Wu, Z Wang - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2016 - Elsevier
In reliability engineering, time on performing preventive maintenance (PM) on a component
in a system may affect system availability if system operation needs stopping for PM. To …

Importance Measure-based Resilience Management: Review, Methodology and Perspectives on Maintenance

H Dui, M Liu, J Song, S Wu - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2023 - Elsevier
In recent years, frequent natural or man-made disturbances have accelerated the study of
resilience management. As an important source of system resilience, maintenance activities …

Reconfiguration-oriented opportunistic maintenance policy for reconfigurable manufacturing systems

T Xia, L Xi, E Pan, J Ni - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2017 - Elsevier
In today's highly competitive industrial market, reconfigurable manufacturing systems
(RMSs) have been invented for diverse products, high quality and quick manufacturing …

Extended composite importance measures for multi-state systems with epistemic uncertainty of state assignment

T Xiahou, Y Liu, T Jiang - Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 2018 - Elsevier
Importance measures of multi-state systems have been intensively investigated from
different perspectives in the past few years as the results are able to provide a valuable …

Importance measures for optimal structure in linear consecutive-k-out-of-n systems

H Dui, S Si, RCM Yam - Reliability engineering & system safety, 2018 - Elsevier
Importance measures can describe which component reliability change is the most
promising if the system structure can be easily changed. Recently, the Birnbaum importance …

Component reassignment for reliability optimization of reconfigurable systems considering component degradation

C Ma, Q Wang, Z Cai, S Si, J Zhao - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper aims to optimize the lower bound of the reconfigurable system reliability by
reassigning the degrading components, which is common in practical engineering systems …