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A suggestion of a new measure of importance of system components

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In this paper we suggest a new measure of the importance of a component in a coherent system and derive some of its properties. The measure is for the case of components not undergoing repair proportional to the expected reduction in the remaining system life-time due to the failure of the component. This measure seems to be a useful guide during the system development phase as to which components should receive the most urgent attention in order to increase the system's expected life-time. The properties of the measure are compared with the ones of a measure suggested by Barlow and Proschan [1].

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  • Natvig, Bent, 1979. "A suggestion of a new measure of importance of system components," Stochastic Processes and their Applications, Elsevier, vol. 9(3), pages 319-330, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:spapps:v:9:y:1979:i:3:p:319-330
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    1. Zhu, Xiaoyan & Chen, Zhiqiang & Borgonovo, Emanuele, 2021. "Remaining-useful-lifetime and system-remaining-profit based importance measures for decisions on preventive maintenance," Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Elsevier, vol. 216(C).
    2. Li, Ruiying & Gao, Ying, 2022. "On the component resilience importance measures for infrastructure systems," International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection, Elsevier, vol. 36(C).
    3. Huseby, Arne B. & Natvig, Bent, 2013. "Discrete event simulation methods applied to advanced importance measures of repairable components in multistate network flow systems," Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Elsevier, vol. 119(C), pages 186-198.
    4. Xiaoyan Zhu & Way Kuo, 2014. "Importance measures in reliability and mathematical programming," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 212(1), pages 241-267, January.
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    6. Lisnianski, Anatoly & Frenkel, Ilia & Khvatskin, Lev, 2017. "On sensitivity analysis of aging multi-state system by using LZ-transform," Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Elsevier, vol. 166(C), pages 99-108.
    7. Dui, Hongyan & Si, Shubin & Wu, Shaomin & Yam, Richard C.M., 2017. "An importance measure for multistate systems with external factors," Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Elsevier, vol. 167(C), pages 49-57.
    8. Borgonovo, Emanuele & Aliee, Hananeh & Glaß, Michael & Teich, Jürgen, 2016. "A new time-independent reliability importance measure," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 254(2), pages 427-442.
    9. Lisnianski, Anatoly & Frenkel, Ilia & Khvatskin, Lev, 2015. "On Birnbaum importance assessment for aging multi-state system under minimal repair by using the Lz-transform method," Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Elsevier, vol. 142(C), pages 258-266.
    10. Mario Hellmich & Heinz-Peter Berg, 2013. "On the construction of component importance measures for semi-Markov systems," Mathematical Methods of Operations Research, Springer;Gesellschaft für Operations Research (GOR);Nederlands Genootschap voor Besliskunde (NGB), vol. 77(1), pages 15-32, February.
    11. Natvig, Bent & Huseby, Arne B. & Reistadbakk, Mads O., 2011. "Measures of component importance in repairable multistate systems—a numerical study," Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Elsevier, vol. 96(12), pages 1680-1690.
    12. Wu, Shaomin & Coolen, Frank P.A., 2013. "A cost-based importance measure for system components: An extension of the Birnbaum importance," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 225(1), pages 189-195.
    13. Navarro, Jorge & Arriaza, Antonio & Suárez-Llorens, Alfonso, 2019. "Minimal repair of failed components in coherent systems," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 279(3), pages 951-964.
    14. Mario Hellmich, 2018. "Component importance based on dependence measures," Mathematical Methods of Operations Research, Springer;Gesellschaft für Operations Research (GOR);Nederlands Genootschap voor Besliskunde (NGB), vol. 87(2), pages 229-250, April.
    15. Fu, Yuqiang & Yuan, Tao & Zhu, Xiaoyan, 2019. "Importance-measure based methods for component reassignment problem of degrading components," Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Elsevier, vol. 190(C), pages 1-1.
    16. Si, Shubin & Levitin, Gregory & Dui, Hongyan & Sun, Shudong, 2013. "Component state-based integrated importance measure for multi-state systems," Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Elsevier, vol. 116(C), pages 75-83.
    17. Bent Natvig, 2011. "Measures of Component Importance in Nonrepairable and Repairable Multistate Strongly Coherent Systems," Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability, Springer, vol. 13(3), pages 523-547, September.
    18. Bent Natvig & Jørund Gåsemyr, 2009. "New Results on the Barlow–Proschan and Natvig Measures of Component Importance in Nonrepairable and Repairable Systems," Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability, Springer, vol. 11(4), pages 603-620, December.
    19. Yves Dutuit & Antoine Rauzy, 2014. "Importance factors of coherent systems: A review," Journal of Risk and Reliability, , vol. 228(3), pages 313-323, June.
    20. Natvig, Bent & Eide, Kristina A. & Gåsemyr, Jørund & Huseby, Arne B. & Isaksen, Stefan L., 2009. "Simulation based analysis and an application to an offshore oil and gas production system of the Natvig measures of component importance in repairable systems," Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Elsevier, vol. 94(10), pages 1629-1638.
    21. Dutuit, Yves & Rauzy, Antoine, 2015. "On the extension of Importance Measures to complex components," Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Elsevier, vol. 142(C), pages 161-168.

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