En este artículo se estudia el problema de determinar la función de distribución del tiempo de vida de las componentes de un sistema binario, a partir del conocimiento de las leyes que rigen el funcionamiento del sistema y del conjunto de componentes que causa su fallo (obtenida mediante autopsia del sistema en el momento de su deterioro).Se presentan los resultados de Meilijson (1981) y Nowik (1990) que proponen un sistema de ecuaciones implícito para obtener estas distribuciones. Sin embargo,...

A two-unit cold-standby redundant system with one repair facility is considered. Each unit can be in three states: good (I), degraded (II), and failed (III). We suppose that only the following state-transitions af a unit are possible: $I\to II,II\to III,II\to I,III\to I$. The paper is devoted to the problems which arise only provided that the units of the redundant system can be in more than two states (i.e. in operating and failed states). The following characteristics dealing with a single operating period of the system are studied...

The paper is motivated by the stochastic comparison of the reliability of non-repairable $k$-out-of-$n$ systems. The lifetime of such a system with nonidentical components is compared with the lifetime of a system with identical components. Formally the problem is as follows. Let $U_i,i=1,...,n,$ be positive independent random variables with common distribution $F$. For ${\lambda }_i\>0$ and $\mu \>0$, let consider $X_i=U_i/{\lambda }_i$ and $Y_i=U_i/\mu ,i=1,...,n$. Remark that this is no more than a change of scale for each term. For $k\in \{1,2,...,n\},$ let us define $X_{k:n}$ to be the $k$th order statistics...

The paper is motivated by the stochastic comparison of the reliability of non-repairable k-out-of-n systems. The lifetime of such a system with nonidentical components is compared with the lifetime of a system with identical components. Formally the problem is as follows. Let Ui,i = 1,...,n, be positive independent random variables with common distribution F. For λi > 0 and µ > 0, let consider Xi = Ui/λi and Yi = Ui/µ, i = 1,...,n. Remark that this is no more than a change of scale for each...

Se acepta que si las observaciones (yi) de un proceso de producción no son independientes, la estructura del error se puede determinar como sugirieron Box-Jenkins (1970). Pero los métodos de B-J son off-line y requieren de cierta experiencia por parte del usuario. En este trabajo, presentamos un procedimiento basado en filtros celosía adaptativos para el control estadístico de procesos (SPC). Este SPC adaptativo puede ser completamente computerizado y aún más, realizable en hardware.