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We present two stochastic failure models for the reliability evaluation of manufacturing equipment that degrades due to its complex operating environment. The first model examines the case when the environment is a temporally nonhomogeneous continuous-time Markov chain, and the second assumes the environment is a temporally homogeneous semi-Markov process on a finite space. Derived are transform expressions for the lifetime distributions. A few examples are provided to illustrate the main results.
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Kharoufeh, J.P., Cox, S.M. & Oxley, M.E. Reliability of manufacturing equipment in complex environments. Ann Oper Res 209, 231–254 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-011-0839-x
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