IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/inm/oropre/v25y1977i5p874-879.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Technical Note—An Importance Ranking for System Components Based upon Cuts

Author

Listed:
  • David A. Butler

    (Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon)

Abstract

Measures and rankings of a system's components relative to their importance to the system reliability have been developed by a number of authors to aid in the identification of those components on which to concentrate the resources for reliability improvement. This note proposes a new definition of component importance that is based upon minimal cuts and compares it with earlier definitions. We conclude that the new definition has distinct advantages when the system is composed of highly reliable components.

Suggested Citation

  • David A. Butler, 1977. "Technical Note—An Importance Ranking for System Components Based upon Cuts," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 25(5), pages 874-879, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:oropre:v:25:y:1977:i:5:p:874-879
    DOI: 10.1287/opre.25.5.874
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/opre.25.5.874
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1287/opre.25.5.874?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Serkan Eryilmaz, 2013. "Component importance for linear consecutive‐ k ‐Out‐of‐ n and m ‐Consecutive‐ k ‐Out‐of‐ n systems with exchangeable components," Naval Research Logistics (NRL), John Wiley & Sons, vol. 60(4), pages 313-320, June.
    2. Rocco S., Claudio M. & Ramirez-Marquez, Jose Emmanuel, 2012. "Innovative approaches for addressing old challenges in component importance measures," Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Elsevier, vol. 108(C), pages 123-130.
    3. Ramirez-Marquez, Jose E. & Rocco, Claudio M. & Gebre, Bethel A. & Coit, David W. & Tortorella, Michael, 2006. "New insights on multi-state component criticality and importance," Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Elsevier, vol. 91(8), pages 894-904.
    4. Emanuele Borgonovo & Alessandra Cillo, 2017. "Deciding with Thresholds: Importance Measures and Value of Information," Risk Analysis, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 37(10), pages 1828-1848, October.
    5. Whitson, John C. & Ramirez-Marquez, Jose Emmanuel, 2009. "Resiliency as a component importance measure in network reliability," Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Elsevier, vol. 94(10), pages 1685-1693.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:inm:oropre:v:25:y:1977:i:5:p:874-879. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Asher (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/inforea.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.