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Maintainability engineering simulation system: An application of discrete simulation to engineering education

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In the instruction of system engineering disciplines, like maintainability or reliability, the importance of considering the interactions of all system parameters in the evaluation of proposed hardware configurations must be emphasized. The student should thoroughly comprehend that the nature of these interactions determines the impact of a design configuration on performance.
To promote an understanding of these complex interactions a teaching aid in the form of a simulation model can be employed. The paper describes a maintenance/reliability simulation model that has been used to introduce the concepts of maintainability/reliability engineering to undergraduate engineering students and that will be used in the training of graduate level systems engineering students. The graduate level personnel will have studied the analytical processes involved in systems engineering and will have a considerable background in statistics prior to use of the simulation. For this level student, use of the model also provides an excellent introduction to the techniques of digital simulation. The undergraduate student, on the other hand, cannot use sophisticated analytical or statistical techniques to suboptimize parameters and must rely on intuition and experience in establishing input parameters values. In either case, the use of the model provides the student an excellent understanding of the complex interactions between various parameters of the system. The model will be described in Section II. Section III includes a sample and description of the output and a list of required input variables. Section IV contains a brief discussion of the use of the model as a teaching aid.

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        WSC '71: Proceedings of the 5th conference on Winter simulation
        January 1971
        544 pages
        ISBN:9781450374088
        DOI:10.1145/800294
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