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14:32, 10 July 2011 Pantelis talk contribs deleted page Throughput Metrics and Terminology (content was: 'In looking at throughput, one needs to define some terminology and metrics that will describe the behavior of the system and its components when doing suc…' (and the only contributor was 'Steve Sharp'))
14:32, 10 July 2011 Pantelis talk contribs deleted page Throughput Analysis (content was: 'In the prior sections, we concentrated on failure and repair actions of a system. In doing so, we viewed the system from a system/component up/down persp…' (and the only contributor was 'Steve Sharp'))
14:30, 10 July 2011 Pantelis talk contribs deleted page Discussion (content was: 'Even though the examples and explanations presented here are deterministic, the sequence of events and logic used to view the system is the same as the on…' (and the only contributor was 'Steve Sharp'))
14:30, 10 July 2011 Pantelis talk contribs deleted page Containers in Simulation (content was: '===Standby Containers=== In the case of a standby container, the container acts as the switch mechanism (Figure standbycontainer) in addition to defining …' (and the only contributor was 'Steve Sharp'))
14:29, 10 July 2011 Pantelis talk contribs deleted page Subdiagrams and Multi Blocks in Simulation (content was: 'Any subdiagrams and multi blocks that may be present in the BlockSim RBD are expanded and/or merged into a single diagram before the system is simulated. …' (and the only contributor was 'Steve Sharp'))
14:29, 10 July 2011 Pantelis talk contribs deleted page Using Maintenance Policies (content was: 'One of the most important benefits of simulation is the ability to define how and when actions are performed. In our case, the actions of interest are pa…' (and the only contributor was 'Steve Sharp'))
14:28, 10 July 2011 Pantelis talk contribs deleted page Using Resources: Pools and Crews (content was: 'In order to make the analysis more realistic, one may wish to consider additional sources of delay times in the analysis or study the effect of limited re…' (and the only contributor was 'Steve Sharp'))
14:28, 10 July 2011 Pantelis talk contribs deleted page Imperfect Repairs (content was: '===Restoration Factors (RF)=== In the prior discussion it was assumed that a repaired component is as good as new after repair. This is usually the cas…' (and the only contributor was 'Steve Sharp'))
14:28, 10 July 2011 Pantelis talk contribs deleted page Results by Component (content was: 'Simulation results for each component can also be viewed. Figure fig9 shows the results for component A. These results are explained in the sections tha…' (and the only contributor was 'Steve Sharp'))
14:27, 10 July 2011 Pantelis talk contribs deleted page General Simulation Results (content was: 'To further illustrate this, assume that both components in the prior example had normal failure and repair distributions with their means equal to the det…' (and the only contributor was 'Steve Sharp'))
14:27, 10 July 2011 Pantelis talk contribs deleted page Simple Repairs (content was: 'Deterministic View, Simple Series To first understand how component failures and simple repairs affect the system and to visualize the steps involved, let…' (and the only contributor was 'Steve Sharp'))
14:25, 10 July 2011 Pantelis talk contribs deleted page Applying These Principles to Larger Systems (content was: 'In this chapter, we explored some of the basic concepts and mathematical formulations involving repairable systems. Most examples/equations were given us…' (and the only contributor was 'Steve Sharp'))
14:24, 10 July 2011 Pantelis talk contribs deleted page Preventive Maintenance (content was: 'Preventive maintenance is a schedule of planned maintenance actions aimed at the prevention of breakdowns and failures. The primary goal of preventive ma…' (and the only contributor was 'Steve Sharp'))
14:24, 10 July 2011 Pantelis talk contribs deleted page Availability (content was: 'If one considers both reliability (probability that the item will not fail) and maintainability (the probability that the item is successfully restored af…' (and the only contributor was 'Steve Sharp'))
14:24, 10 July 2011 Pantelis talk contribs deleted page Maintainability (content was: 'Maintainability is defined as the probability of performing a successful repair action within a given time. In other words, maintainability measures the …' (and the only contributor was 'Steve Sharp'))
14:23, 10 July 2011 Pantelis talk contribs deleted page Downtime Distributions (content was: 'Maintenance actions (preventive or corrective) are not instantaneous. There is a time associated with each action (i.e. the amount of time it takes to co…' (and the only contributor was 'Steve Sharp'))
14:22, 10 July 2011 Pantelis talk contribs deleted page Defining Maintenance (content was: 'To properly deal with repairable systems, we need to first understand how components in these systems are restored (i.e. the maintenance actions that the …' (and the only contributor was 'Steve Sharp'))
14:22, 10 July 2011 Pantelis talk contribs deleted page Repairable Systems (content was: 'In prior chapters, the analysis was focused on determining the reliability of the system (i.e. the probability that the system, subsystem or component wil…' (and the only contributor was 'Steve Sharp'))
14:20, 10 July 2011 Pantelis talk contribs deleted page Other Notes on User-Defined Cost Functions (content was: 'The optimization method in BlockSim is a very powerful tool for allocating reliability to the components of a system while minimizing an overall cost of i…' (and the only contributor was 'Steve Sharp'))
14:20, 10 July 2011 Pantelis talk contribs deleted page Setting Specifications (content was: 'This methodology could also be used to arrive at initial specifications for a set of components. In the prior examples, we assumed a current reliability …' (and the only contributor was 'Steve Sharp'))
14:19, 10 July 2011 Pantelis talk contribs deleted page Implementing the Optimization (content was: 'As was mentioned earlier, there are two different methods of implementing the changes suggested by the reliability optimization routine: fault tolerance a…' (and the only contributor was 'Steve Sharp'))
14:19, 10 July 2011 Pantelis talk contribs deleted page Improving Reliability (content was: 'Reliability engineers are very often called upon to make decisions as to whether to improve a certain component or components in order to achieve a minimu…' (and the only contributor was 'Steve Sharp'))
14:19, 10 July 2011 Pantelis talk contribs deleted page Reliability Allocation (content was: 'In the process of developing a new product, the engineer is often faced with the task of designing a system that conforms to a set of reliability specifi…' (and the only contributor was 'Steve Sharp'))
14:18, 10 July 2011 Pantelis talk contribs deleted page Component Reliability Importance (content was: '===Static Reliability Importance=== Once the reliability of a system has been determined, engineers are often faced with the task of identifying the …' (and the only contributor was 'Steve Sharp'))
14:16, 10 July 2011 Pantelis talk contribs deleted page Note Regarding Numerical Integration Solutions (content was: 'Load sharing and standby solutions in BlockSim are performed using numerical integration routines. As with any numerical analysis routine, the solution e…' (and the only contributor was 'Steve Sharp'))
14:15, 10 July 2011 Pantelis talk contribs deleted page Standby Components (content was: 'In the previous section, the case of a system with load sharing components was presented. This is a form of redundancy with dependent components. That is…' (and the only contributor was 'Steve Sharp'))
14:15, 10 July 2011 Pantelis talk contribs deleted page Load Sharing (content was: 'As presented in earlier chapters, a reliability block diagram (RBD) allows you to graphically represent how the components within a system are reliability…' (and the only contributor was 'Steve Sharp'))
14:15, 10 July 2011 Pantelis talk contribs deleted page Duty Cycle (content was: 'Components of a system may not operate continuously during a system's mission, or may be subjected to loads greater or lesser than the rated loads during …' (and the only contributor was 'Steve Sharp'))
14:14, 10 July 2011 Pantelis talk contribs deleted page Approximating the System CDF (content was: 'In many cases, it is valuable to fit a distribution that represents the system's times-to-failure. This can be useful when the system is part of a larger…' (and the only contributor was 'Steve Sharp'))
14:14, 10 July 2011 Pantelis talk contribs deleted page Analytical Life Predictions (content was: 'The analytical approach presented in the prior chapter involved the determination of a mathematical expression that describes the reliability of the syste…' (and the only contributor was 'Steve Sharp'))
14:12, 10 July 2011 Pantelis talk contribs deleted page Combination of Series and Parallel (content was: 'While many smaller systems can be accurately represented by either a simple series or parallel configuration, there may be larger systems that involve bot…' (and the only contributor was 'Steve Sharp'))
14:11, 10 July 2011 Pantelis talk contribs deleted page Symbolic Solutions in BlockSim (content was: ' Several algebraic solutions in BlockSim were used in the prior examples. BlockSim constructs and displays these equations in different ways, dependi…' (and the only contributor was 'Steve Sharp'))
14:11, 10 July 2011 Pantelis talk contribs deleted page Reliability Block Diagrams for Failure Modes and Other Applications (content was: 'In this reference, most of the examples and derivations assume that each block represents a component/subassembly in a larger system. The same methodolog…' (and the only contributor was 'Steve Sharp'))
14:10, 10 July 2011 Pantelis talk contribs deleted page Configurations with Mirrored Blocks (content was: 'center While multi blocks allow the analyst to represent multiple items with a single block in an RBD, BlockSim's mirrored block…' (and the only contributor was 'Steve Sharp'))
14:10, 10 July 2011 Pantelis talk contribs deleted page Configurations with Multi Blocks (content was: 'By using multi blocks within BlockSim, a single block can represent multiple identical blocks in series or in parallel configuration. This technique is s…' (and the only contributor was 'Steve Sharp'))
14:09, 10 July 2011 Pantelis talk contribs deleted page Configurations with Inherited Subdiagrams (content was: 'Within BlockSim, a subdiagram block inherits some or all of its properties from another block diagram. This allows the analyst to maintain separate diagr…' (and the only contributor was 'Steve Sharp'))
14:09, 10 July 2011 Pantelis talk contribs deleted page Configurations with Load Sharing and Standby Redundancy (content was: 'Units in load sharing redundancy exhibit different failure characteristics when one or more fail. In Figure fig26, blocks 1, 2 and 3 are in a load sharin…' (and the only contributor was 'Steve Sharp'))
14:08, 10 July 2011 Pantelis talk contribs deleted page Difference Between Physical and Reliability-Wise Arrangement (content was: 'Reliability block diagrams are created in order to illustrate the way that components are arranged reliability-wise in a system. So far we have described…' (and the only contributor was 'Steve Sharp'))
14:08, 10 July 2011 Pantelis talk contribs deleted page Complex Systems (content was: 'In many cases, it is not easy to recognize which components are in series and which are in parallel in a complex system. The network shown in Figure 4.15…' (and the only contributor was 'Steve Sharp'))
14:07, 10 July 2011 Pantelis talk contribs deleted page K-out-of-n Parallel Configuration (content was: 'The <math>k</math> -out-of- <math>n</math> configuration is a special case of parallel redundancy. This type of configuration requires that at least <…' (and the only contributor was 'Steve Sharp'))
14:06, 10 July 2011 Pantelis talk contribs deleted page Simple Parallel Systems (content was: 'center <center>Figure 4.5: Simple parallel system.</center> In a simple parallel system, as shown in Figure 4.5, at leas…' (and the only contributor was 'Steve Sharp'))
14:06, 10 July 2011 Pantelis talk contribs deleted page Series Systems (content was: 'center In a series configuration, a failure of any component results in the failure of the entire system. In most cases, whe…' (and the only contributor was 'Steve Sharp'))
14:05, 10 July 2011 Pantelis talk contribs deleted page Component Configurations (content was: ' In order to construct a reliability block diagram, the reliability-wise configuration of the components must be determined. Consequently, the analys…' (and the only contributor was 'Steve Sharp'))
13:55, 10 July 2011 Pantelis talk contribs deleted page A Brief Introduction to Life-Stress Relationships (content was: '{{InProgress}} In certain cases when one or more of the characteristics of the distribution change based on an outside factor, one may be interested …' (and the only contributor was 'Steve Sharp'))
13:54, 10 July 2011 Pantelis talk contribs deleted page A Brief Introduction to Continuous Life Distributions (content was: '{{InProgress}} ===Random Variables=== center In general, most problems in reliability engineering deal with qua…' (and the only contributor was 'Steve Sharp'))
13:54, 10 July 2011 Pantelis talk contribs deleted page A Brief Introduction to Probability Theory (content was: '{{InProgress}} ===Basic Definitions=== Before considering the methodology for estimating system reliability, some basic concepts from probabilit…' (and the only contributor was 'Steve Sharp'))
13:53, 10 July 2011 Pantelis talk contribs deleted page Introduction (content was: '{{InProgress}} This chapter presents a brief review of statistical principles and terminology. The objective of this chapter is to introduce concep…' (and the only contributor was 'Steve Sharp'))
13:51, 10 July 2011 Pantelis talk contribs deleted page Symbols (content was: '::<math>\cup ,</math> Union ::<math>\cap ,</math> Intersection ::<math>\sum</math>, Summation ::<math>\prod</math>, Product ::<math>…' (and the only contributor was 'Steve Sharp'))
13:50, 10 July 2011 Pantelis talk contribs deleted page Notation (content was: '::<math>A(\cdot )</math> , Point Availability ::<math>{{A}_{m}}(\cdot )</math> , Mean Availability ::ALT, Accelerated Life Tests ::<math>\b…' (and the only contributor was 'Steve Sharp'))
13:39, 10 July 2011 Pantelis talk contribs deleted page Regarding BlockSim's Random Number Generator (RNG) (content was: 'Internally ReliaSoft's BlockSim uses an algorithm based on L'Ecuyer's [RefX] random number generator with a post Bays-Durham shuffle. The RNG's period is…' (and the only contributor was 'Steve Sharp'))

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