Proposition of Applying Markov Transfer State in Reliability Analysis of Manufacturing System with Different Configuration Orders

Reliability analysis is one of the most important aspect when conduct performance evaluation of reconfigurable manufacturing system (RMS). Due to the characteristic of such system, its failure rate is piecewise defined, which causes complexity of reliability analysis. There are different kinds of reconfigurability characteristics and configuration order is one of the reconfigurability characteristics in such system paradigms. This paper propose a framework to assess reliability performance of manufacturing system with different configuration orders. In the framework, Markov transfer state of Markov chain is applied in presenting configuration order during processing. Then, different reliability assessment methods with different fault management policies are illustrated.