Function Degradation and Reliability Analysis Using Markov Chain for Reuse Strategies of Product Families

Author

Lan Jiang, Missouri University of Science and TechnologyFollow
Venkat Allada, Missouri University of Science and TechnologyFollow

Abstract

Reuse is one of the most end-of-life strategies for sustainable design. This paper presents a methodology to plan reuse strategies of common modules in a product family using the concepts of function requirement, cost and life time. Markov chain model is employed to predict function degradation and reliability. A utility model is used to evaluate the preference between used modules and new modules. An example of cascading-requirement product family illustrates the main ideas of our work.

Recommended Citation

L. Jiang and V. Allada, "Function Degradation and Reliability Analysis Using Markov Chain for Reuse Strategies of Product Families," Intelligent Engineering Systems through Artificial Neural Networks, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Jan 2000.

Department(s)

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Second Department

Engineering Management and Systems Engineering

Sponsor(s)

National Science Foundation (U.S.)

Keywords and Phrases

Artificial Intelligence; Neural Networks

Document Type

Article - Conference proceedings

Document Version

Citation

File Type

text

Language(s)

English

Rights

© 2000 American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), All rights reserved.

Publication Date

01 Jan 2000