Title :
Cost Effective Spares
Author :
Amster, S.J. ; Cerino, R.
Author_Institution :
Bell Telephone Laboratories; Holmdel, NJ 07733 USA.
fDate :
6/1/1978 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
This paper presents a method for selecting spare modules to support system availability in a cost-effective manner. We apply the method to determine the sparing requirements for a specialized power unit used throughout a telephone transmission system. The method has been extensively used to generate spares complements for large military systems and to perform reliability tradeoffs.
Keywords :
Availability; Costs; Degradation; History; Military computing; Optimization methods; Power system reliability; Repeaters; Tail; Telephony; Approximate Optimization; Availability; Sparing;
Journal_Title :
Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TR.1978.5220279
