Reliability has become a greater concern in recent years, because high-tech industrial
processes with ever increasing levels of sophistication comprise most engineering systems …

Abstract System reliability optimization problems have been widely discussed to maximize
system reliability with resource constraints. Birnbaum importance is a well-known method for …

This paper proposes a genetic algorithm (GA) for a redundancy allocation problem for the
series-parallel system when the redundancy strategy can be chosen for individual …

This paper describes a Monte-Carlo (MC) simulation methodology for estimating the
reliability of a multi-state network. The problem under consideration involves multi-state two …

This paper integrates production, maintenance, and quality for an imperfect process in a
multi-period multi-product capacitated lot-sizing context. The production system is modeled …

The performance analysis of the evaporation and crystallization unit of a sugar plant is
explored in the current study. It is an important unit requiring more concentration to increase …

This paper presents & evaluates composite importance measures (CIM) for multi-state
systems with multi-state components (MSMC). Importance measures are important tools to …

This paper proposes a new swarm intelligence method known as the Particle-based
Simplified Swarm Optimization (PSSO) algorithm while undertaking a modification of the …

The multiobjective reliability redundancy allocation problem (MORRAP) aims to ensure high
system reliability in the presence of optimally redundant components. This is one of the most …

This paper develops an efficient tabu search (TS) heuristic to solve the redundancy
allocation problem for multi-state series–parallel systems. The system has a range of …