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Availability of Systems with or Without Inspections

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Availability is a very important measure of system performance. A great deal of research works on it have been done. This article reviews the recent major results in this field. Systems whose failures are either self-announcing or not self-announcing are considered in these works, various repair methods and different inspection policies are explored as well. Some of these studies derive the expressions of the steady-state availability, limiting average availability, and others give the expressions of the instantaneous availability explicitly or recursively.

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Huang, K., Mi, J. (2016). Availability of Systems with or Without Inspections. In: Pham, H. (eds) Quality and Reliability Management and Its Applications. Springer Series in Reliability Engineering. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-6778-5_9

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