EMIS 7305/5305

Homework 6

Parallel Elements

The time to failure for specific production equipment has an exponential distribution with parameter θ = 1,000 hours and the operating time is 750 hours. Investigate the impact of increasing the number of identical active parallel elements (production equipment) on

(a) system reliability

(b) mean time between system failures

(c) mean time between system maintenance,

Show details of your analysis and summarize your results using graphics to make key points.