| Article ID: | iaor199266 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Start Page Number: | 617 |
| End Page Number: | 628 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 1991 |
| Journal: | Operations Research Letters |
| Authors: | Petrovic R., Petrovic D. |
| Keywords: | computers: information, artificial intelligence: expert systems |
This paper is part of a continuous story of SPARTA-an expert system for advising on spare stocks for maintenance purposes. Using an item approach, SPARTA II suggests the assortment and quantities of both repairable and consumable parts of electronic systems. The domain of expertise is restricted to the parts for which the exponential distribution of the times between failures can be assumed. The output of SPARTA II includes: (1)the list of recommended stocks of spares, (2)the calculated reliability with and without the spares recommended, (3)suggestions concerning further investment in spare parts.