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Optimization redundancy allocation problem with nonexponential repairable components using simulation approach and artificial neural network

Optimization redundancy allocation problem with nonexponential repairable components using... Redundancy allocation is one of the adopted approaches that is used by system designers to improve the performance of systems. In this article, a new model and a novel‐solving method are provided to address the nonexponential redundancy allocation problem in series‐parallel systems with repairable components based on optimization via simulation approach and artificial neural network technique. Despite the previous researches, in this model the failure and repair times of the each component were considered to have nonnegative exponential distributions. This assumption makes the model closer to the reality where most of used components have greater chance to face a breakdown in comparison to new ones. The main aim of this research is the optimization of mean time to the first failure of the system via allocating the best redundant components for each subsystem. Since this objective function of the problem could not be explicitly mentioned, the simulation technique and artificial neural network were applied to model the problem, and different experimental designs were produced using design of experiment methods. To solve the problem, some metaheuristic algorithms were integrated with the simulation method. Several experiments were performed to test the proposed approach, and as the results show, the proposed approach is much more real than previous models, and also the near optimum solutions are promising. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Quality and Reliability Engineering International Wiley

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Wiley
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Copyright © 2018 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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0748-8017
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1099-1638
DOI
10.1002/qre.2249
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Abstract

Redundancy allocation is one of the adopted approaches that is used by system designers to improve the performance of systems. In this article, a new model and a novel‐solving method are provided to address the nonexponential redundancy allocation problem in series‐parallel systems with repairable components based on optimization via simulation approach and artificial neural network technique. Despite the previous researches, in this model the failure and repair times of the each component were considered to have nonnegative exponential distributions. This assumption makes the model closer to the reality where most of used components have greater chance to face a breakdown in comparison to new ones. The main aim of this research is the optimization of mean time to the first failure of the system via allocating the best redundant components for each subsystem. Since this objective function of the problem could not be explicitly mentioned, the simulation technique and artificial neural network were applied to model the problem, and different experimental designs were produced using design of experiment methods. To solve the problem, some metaheuristic algorithms were integrated with the simulation method. Several experiments were performed to test the proposed approach, and as the results show, the proposed approach is much more real than previous models, and also the near optimum solutions are promising.

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Quality and Reliability Engineering International – Wiley

Published: Jan 1, 2018

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