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 …

Importance measure-based maintenance strategy optimization: Fundamentals, applications and future directions in AI and IoT

H Dui, X Wu, S Wu, M Xie - Frontiers of Engineering Management, 2024 - Springer
Numerous maintenance strategies have been proposed in the literature related to reliability.
This paper focuses on the utilization of reliability importance measures to optimize …

Different costs-informed component preventive maintenance with system lifetime changes

H Dui, C Zhang, T Tian, S Wu - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract System safety assessment is a technique aiming at identifying hazards for the
system under analysis and showing the compliance with the safety requirements. In order to …

Analysis of variable system cost and maintenance strategy in life cycle considering different failure modes

H Dui, Y Zhang, G Bai - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2024 - Elsevier
Due to the complexity of multi-component systems, components failure modes are intricate.
The failure modes lead to maintenance behavior combinations, which lead to a series of …

System performance-based joint importance analysis guided maintenance for repairable systems

H Dui, S Li, L Xing, H Liu - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2019 - Elsevier
To enhance system performance, corrective maintenance for failed components and
preventive maintenance (PM) for operating components can be performed simultaneously …

System reliability allocation and optimization based on generalized Birnbaum importance measure

S Si, M Liu, Z Jiang, T Jin, Z Cai - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Importance measure can be used to identify the most vulnerable components with respect to
system functionality or failure. Traditional importance measures may not be effective to …

Remaining-useful-lifetime and system-remaining-profit based importance measures for decisions on preventive maintenance

X Zhu, Z Chen, E Borgonovo - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2021 - Elsevier
We propose two types of importance measures for component selection in preventive
maintenance. The first type evaluates the relative importance of a component in terms of …

A value-based preventive maintenance policy for multi-component system with continuously degrading components

B Liu, Z Xu, M Xie, W Kuo - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2014 - Elsevier
A dynamic preventive maintenance policy for system with continuously degrading
components is investigated in this paper. Different from traditional cost-centric preventive …

A cost-based integrated importance measure of system components for preventive maintenance

H Dui, S Si, RCM Yam - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2017 - Elsevier
Preventive maintenance may be performed on a few selected components when a
component fails. Importance measures can be used to identify the most important …

A new multi-criteria importance measure and its applications to risk reduction and safety enhancement

H Dui, X Wei, L Xing - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2023 - Elsevier
A wide variety of importance measures have been proposed to rank components for different
purposes and most of them are based on a single criterion like reliability, maintenance cost …