Reliability Modelling for the Scheduling of Plant Work in Majority Vote Mode
International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management
ISSN: 0265-671X
Article publication date: 1 February 1986
Abstract
Downtime data have been acquired from a 1980 MW capacity coal‐fired power station. These data refer to a pulverised fuel system which comprises ten mills, each of which, for the purpose of reliability analysis, has six sets of components liable to failure. The majority voting of the mills was a seven‐out‐of‐ten system. Individual unit failure patterns are determined using a family of exponential models and are used to provide total group reliability patterns, and a computerised alogorithm for analysis of the voting system is developed. A methodology for scheduling majority vote equipment working with non‐symmetrical overhaul downtimes is presented.
Citation
Barry, D.M. and Hudson, M.W. (1986), "Reliability Modelling for the Scheduling of Plant Work in Majority Vote Mode", International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management, Vol. 3 No. 2, pp. 12-20. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb002861
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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