2 Dipartimento di Progettazione e Produzione Industriale, Universita' di Bari, Bari, Italia
a Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221, U.S.A.
Abstract:
Flexible Automated Production Systems (FAPS) are designed as fault tolerant systems in order to ensure increased operating time.
This paper proposes an integrated performance-reliability model to evaluate different measures for a more complete and easy quantification of the fault tolerance characteristic of a FAPS and its ability to perform in degraded states.
Some examples are presented to show the applicability of computational algorithms.