Title :
Study on testing strategies for standby systems
Author :
Wang, M. ; Chen, M.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Ind. Eng. & Manage., Chaoyang Univ. of Technol., Taichung, Taiwan
Abstract :
Surveillance test schedule has been studied to increase standby system availability and keep plant safety. Optimal testing schedules have been studied and developed for simple systems, such as series and parallel systems. For more complex systems, a testing policy was usually chosen among the pre-specified testing strategies based on the performance calculated by computer codes. However, it was not sure the adopted testing strategy was optimal or near optimal. This study summarized several optimal testing strategies of simple systems. Based on these previous results, some suggestions were proposed to build up testing strategies for complex systems to maximize system availability.
Keywords :
maintenance engineering; safety systems; scheduling; testing; optimal testing schedules; optimal testing strategy; plant safety; standby system availability; standby systems; surveillance test schedule; Availability; Engineering management; Guidelines; Industrial engineering; Job shop scheduling; Performance evaluation; Safety; Surveillance; System testing; Technology management; standby system; testing strategy;
Conference_Titel :
Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, 2008. IEEM 2008. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Singapore
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2629-4
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2630-0
DOI :
10.1109/IEEM.2008.4738135
