| Article ID: | iaor20032300 |
| Country: | United States |
| Volume: | 19 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 67 |
| End Page Number: | 72 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2003 |
| Journal: | Quality and Reliability Engineering International |
| Authors: | Finkelstein M.S. |
| Keywords: | maintenance, repair & replacement |
The quality of a system operation is characterized by decreases in time deterministic function or by a stochastic process with decreasing sample paths. Simple relations for the stationary characteristic of quality are derived in cases when the system is repairable after each failure. Methods of quality improvement are considered. The case of imperfect repair for a simplified setting is studied. Several examples are considered.