Case Study: Optimal Reliability and Inventory Control in a Long Term Service Agreement (LTSA) Context

by Stevens, Paul

The purpose of this paper is to present a case study of the application of reliability methodology to the problem of increasing on-line availability and of constructing a minimum cost spare parts inventory policy for complex equipment...

• Filetype: pdf
• Publish date: 2010-01
• Keywords:Warranty,Logistics,Support Costs

Enhancing Bayesian Reliability Demonstration Test by Design for Reliability

Dec 2009

by Jiang, Mingxiao; Dummer, Daniel;

An article on using prior knowledge with the Bayesian method to reduce sample size and achieve a given reliability at confidence for Reliability Demonstration Tests..

• Filetype: pdf
• Publish date: 2009-12
• Keywords:Bayesian, Sample Size, Demonstration Tests

Updated Software Reliability Metrics

Dec. 2009

by Schneiderwind, Norm

An article on the most efficient metrics for describing the residual failures in software based upon testing...

• Filetype: pdf
• Publish date: 2009-12
• Keywords:Software Reliability, Metrics, Time to Failure Models