| Article ID: | iaor19931005 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 12 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Start Page Number: | 197 |
| End Page Number: | 199 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 1992 |
| Journal: | Operations Research Letters |
| Authors: | Hwang F.K., Rothblum U.G. |
| Keywords: | performance, quality & reliability |
The authors generalized the well known engineering principle ‘component-level redundancy is better than system-level redundancy’ to cases where redundant components do not have to be identical to original components.