Recent Patents on Importance Measures for System Reliability Improvement

Publisher: Bentham Science Publishers

E-ISSN: 2212-4047|11|3|208-214

ISSN: 1872-2121

Source: Recent Patents on Engineering, Vol.11, Iss.3, 2017-09, pp. : 208-214

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Abstract

Background: In attempting to achieve high reliability for a system, a basic problem of thesystem analysts is how to evaluate the relative component importance. Importance measures are used toevaluate the component contribution to system reliability. The patents related to importance measuresand their applications in system reliability have been studied. Contents of most patents are related tosystem identification, component ranks, reliability improvement, and classification.lt;/Pgt