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Reliability of a Maintainable Manufacturing Network subject to Budget
Applying network analysis, a manufacturing system can be constructed as a manufacturing network by
representing each workstation as an arc and each inspection station as a node. In particular, the capacity of each workstation is
stochastic (i.e. multistate) due to the possibility of failure, partial failure, and maintenance. In practical cases, such a
manufacturing network has to achieve a specified production level to satisfy the customers’ orders. Hence, maintenance is
necessary to guarantee a manufacturing network can retain a minimal production level. A maintenance model, namely
maintainable manufacturing network (MMN), is proposed to evaluate whether the manufacturing system can provide
sufficient capacity subject to maintenance budget or not. The maintenance reliability is further proposed to calculate the
probability that the MMN provides a sufficient capacity level to meet the minimal production level under maintenance budget