Presents two models. Model I deals with some characteristics of a single unit system with a sensing device and two types of repairmen. The unit is attached to a sensing device which completely monitors the operating or non‐operating status of the unit. The regular repairman is always available...

Software testing is usually a very costly and time‐consuming phase in software development. As most software systems are modular, it is of great importance for the management to allocate the limited testing‐time among the software modules in an optimal way so that the highest quality and...

A large number of research articles have appeared in the literature during the last two decades on the subject of system reliability optimisation, each with a view to providing simple, exact and efficient techniques. Here, an efficient, fast and exact technique is proposed for solving...

Considers an extension of the non‐homogeneous Poisson process to describe the software failure process more appropriately. This extension introduces a new structure for the intensity function of the non‐homogeneous Poisson process. Using this intensity function, develops a mathematical model...

For manufacturing systems which are in continuous operation and subject to breakdown, inspection can be an appropriate maintenance strategy. In this situation, inspection can reduce down‐time and increase system reliability. In this paper two main ideas are proposed. In the first, an...

Reports on a study carried out on an injection moulding process to produce agitators for washing machines, following complaints from customers. The study revealed that there was a lot of variation in the product dimensions produced. Attempts to demonstrate how robust design methodology is...

A design is robust if the design values for selected performance characteristics (i.e. responses) are chosen to be invariant to the variations the product will experience. For a design to be acceptable, it must conform to the design specifications. However, due to the existence of variation,...

Burn‐in is an effective means of screening out the infant mortality components of a system. Most related studies investigated burn‐in by curve fitting for a failure model and cost for an optimal burn‐in time model and environmental stress model. However, those investigations did not...