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Reliability analysis of maintenance data for complex medical devices
Author(s) -
Taghipour Sharareh,
Banjevic Dragan,
Jardine Andrew K. S.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
quality and reliability engineering international
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.913
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1099-1638
pISSN - 0748-8017
DOI - 10.1002/qre.1084
Subject(s) - censoring (clinical trials) , reliability engineering , reliability (semiconductor) , computer science , preventive maintenance , data mining , engineering , statistics , mathematics , power (physics) , physics , quantum mechanics
This paper proposes a method to analyze statistically maintenance data for complex medical devices with censoring and missing information. It presents a classification of the different types of failures and establishes policies for analyzing data at the system and component levels taking into account the failure types. The results of this analysis can be used as basic assumptions in the development of a maintenance/inspection optimization model. As a case study, we present the reliability analysis of a general infusion pump from a hospital. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.