BULETINUL INSTITUTULUI POLITEHNIC DIN IAŞI
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28 GheorgheNegru<br />
In Eqs. (5)-(7), f is the number of the specific failure event, F is the total<br />
number of evaluated failures and t fi is the time between the failures in issue<br />
δ f<br />
1<br />
= . (8)<br />
MTBF<br />
5. Calculate the total costs per failures per year TCP f , costs generated by<br />
the different failure events, with the following expression<br />
TCP<br />
F<br />
= ∑ δ C . (9)<br />
f f f<br />
f<br />
The equivalent total annual cost represents the value of the money that<br />
will be needed, every year, to pay for the problems caused by failure events<br />
during the expected years of useful life.<br />
6. Calculate the total costs per failure in net present value NPV(TCP f ).<br />
Given a yearly value TCP f this is the amount of money that needs to be saved<br />
(today) to be able to pay this annuity for the expected number of years of useful<br />
life T, and for a discount rate i. The expression used to estimate the NPV(TCP f )<br />
is<br />
T<br />
( 1+ i)<br />
−1<br />
NPV ( TCPf ) = TCPf . (10)<br />
T<br />
i ( 1+<br />
i )<br />
Finally, as in previous models, the rest of the costs evaluated (investment,<br />
planned maintenance, operations, etc.) are added to the cost calculated for nonreliability<br />
and the total cost is obtained in annual equivalent value. The result is<br />
then compared for the different options.<br />
3. Case Study<br />
3.1. Input Data<br />
In the present study case will be applied the above presented method in<br />
order to analyze the costs generated by the low reliability of a specialized<br />
wheeled vehicle system (Fig. 1). The main components of the system are<br />
presented in Table 2.<br />
S2<br />
S4 S5 S1<br />
S3<br />
Fig. 1 – A schematic view of the specialized wheeled vehicle system<br />
The time between failures t f for 27 failures during 10 year time period for<br />
a specialized wheeled vehicle system is defined based on the recorded statistics<br />
data (Table 3).