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This paper deals with the cost benefit analysis of series systems with warm standby components. The time-to-repair and the time-to-failure for each of the primary and warm standby components is assumed to have the negative exponential distribution. We develop the explicit expressions for the mean time-to-failure, MTTF, and the steady-state availability, A T (∞) for three configurations and perform a comparative analysis. Under the cost/benefit (C/B) criterion, comparisons are made based on assumed numerical values given to the distribution parameters, and to the cost of the components. The configurations are ranked based on: MTTF, A T (∞), and C/B where B is either MTTF or A T (∞).
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Wang, KH., Pearn, WL. Cost benefit analysis of series systems with warm standby components. Math Meth Oper Res 58, 247–258 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s001860300274
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s001860300274