Reliability and Cost Optimization of a System with k-out-of-n Configuration and Choice of Decreasing the Components Failure Rates

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1 Faculty of Industrial and Mechanical Engineering, Qazvin Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qazvin, Iran

2 Department of Industrial Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, 424 Hafez Ave., Tehran, Iran

3 Faculty of Management and Accounting, South Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

This paper presents a new redundancy allocation problem for a system with the k-out-of-n configuration at the subsystems’ level with two active and cold standby redundancy strategies. The failure rate of components in each subsystem depends on the number of working components. The components are non-reparable, and the failure rate of the component can be decreased with some preventive maintenance actions. The model has two objective functions: maximizing the system’s reliability and minimizing the system’s costs. The system aims to find the type and number of components in each subsystem, redundancy strategy of subsystems, as well as the decreased values of components failure rates in subsystems. Since the redundancy allocation problem belongs to NP-Hard problems, two Non-Dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm II (NSGA-II) and Non-Dominated Ranked genetic algorithm (NRGA) metaheuristic algorithms were used to solve the presented model and to tune algorithms parameters we used response surface methodology (RSM). Besides, these algorithms were compared using five different performance metrics. Finally, the hypothesis test was used to analyze the results of the algorithms.

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Scientia Iranica
Volume 28, Issue 6 - Serial Number 6
Transactions on Industrial Engineering (E)
November and December 2021
Pages 3602-3616

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  • Receive Date: 05 March 2019
  • Revise Date: 25 December 2019
  • Accept Date: 01 June 2020

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