✦ LIBER ✦
Failure rate distributions for flexible manufacturing systems: An empirical study
✍ Scribed by Michael Vineyard; Kwasi Amoako-Gyampah; Jack R Meredith
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 332 KB
- Volume
- 116
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0377-2217
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✦ Synopsis
To aid researchers in the simulation and testing of maintenance policies for complex, computer controlled technological equipment this paper presents a description of failure and repair rate characteristics as well as distribution data for a typical ¯exible manufacturing system (FMS) that is in use in a mid-western (USA) manufacturing plant. Separate data are included for mechanical, hydraulic, electrical, electronic, software and human failures as well as repairs. The data are also ®t with appropriate theoretical distributions.