Mission Reliability Modeling of Manufacturing Processes and System

Abstract

Mission reliability model is important for evaluation of the production capability of a manufacturing system. The manufacturing system mission reliability refers to the ability that the manufacturing system completes the production mission under specified conditions and within the specified time. The production mission includes two factors: quality of products and the productivity. Calculation of traditional evaluation parameters like Cpk and Ppk excludes the abnormal interruption of production and inspection errors. For some manufacturing systems with low degree of automation in the field of domestic weapons, both production disruptions and misjudgments in inspection processes have an impact on the mission reliability of the manufacturing system. A method of mission reliability modeling of discrete manufacturing system is proposed in this paper. The manufacturing system is composed of several processes. Abnormal interruption of production, inspection errors and substandard quality parameters of the products are involved in the modeling of the process mission reliability. The sequential and concurrent relationship between the processes is also taken into account in the modeling process.