Importance measure-based resilience management: Review, methodology and perspectives on maintenance

H Dui, M Liu, J Song, S Wu - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2023 - Elsevier
In recent years, frequent natural or man-made disturbances have been accelerating the
study of resilience management. As an important source of system resilience, maintenance …

Recent advances in system reliability optimization driven by importance measures

S Si, J Zhao, Z Cai, H Dui - Frontiers of Engineering Management, 2020 - Springer
Abstract System reliability optimization problems have been widely discussed to maximize
system reliability with resource constraints. Birnbaum importance is a well-known method for …

Resilience evaluation and optimal design for weapon system of systems with dynamic reconfiguration

Z Chen, D Hong, W Cui, W Xue, Y Wang… - Reliability Engineering & …, 2023 - Elsevier
The weapon system of systems (WSoS) is a collection of various weapon systems used to
achieve a common goal and mission. Stakeholders are committed to lowering design costs …

Comparing with the joint importance under consideration of consecutive-k-out-of-n system structure changes

H Dui, T Tian, J Zhao, S Wu - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2022 - Elsevier
For a multi-component system, the impact of the alteration of components on the system
reliability often needs assessment. Existing importance measures, however, do not consider …

Linking component importance to optimisation of preventive maintenance policy

S Wu, Y Chen, Q Wu, Z Wang - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2016 - Elsevier
In reliability engineering, time on performing preventive maintenance (PM) on a component
in a system may affect system availability if system operation needs stopping for PM. To …

Importance measure construction and solving algorithm oriented to the cost-constrained reliability optimization model

M Liu, D Wang, J Zhao, S Si - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2022 - Elsevier
Importance measures are used to prioritize the system components for achieving high
efficiency and economy of reliability optimization. The existing importance measures pay …

Reconfiguration-oriented opportunistic maintenance policy for reconfigurable manufacturing systems

T Xia, L Xi, E Pan, J Ni - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2017 - Elsevier
In today's highly competitive industrial market, reconfigurable manufacturing systems
(RMSs) have been invented for diverse products, high quality and quick manufacturing …

Mixed reliability importance-based solving algorithm design for the cost-constrained reliability optimization model

M Liu, D Wang, S Si - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2023 - Elsevier
In the field of reliability engineering, importance measures are widely used to prioritize
components within a system and facilitate the improvement of system performance …

Optimization of linear consecutive-k-out-of-n system with a Birnbaum importance-based genetic algorithm

Z Cai, S Si, S Sun, C Li - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2016 - Elsevier
The optimization of linear consecutive-k-out-of-n (Lin/Con/k/n) is to find an optimal
component arrangement where n components are assigned to n positions to maximize the …

Resilience importance measure and optimization considering the stepwise recovery of system performance

M Liu, Q Feng, D Fan, H Dui, B Sun… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Effective recovery after disruptions is essential to improve system resilience. For many
distributed systems such as offshore wind farms and communication networks, spatial …