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An efficient algorithm for computing exact system and survival signatures of K-terminal network reliability (2019)
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Reed, S., Löfstrand, M., & Andrews, J. (2019). An efficient algorithm for computing exact system and survival signatures of K-terminal network reliability. Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 185, 429-439. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ress.2019.01.011

An efficient algorithm is presented for computing exact system and survival signatures of K-terminal reliability in undirected networks with unreliable edges. K-terminal reliability is defined as the probability that a subset K of the network nodes c... Read More about An efficient algorithm for computing exact system and survival signatures of K-terminal network reliability.

Quantified economic and environmental values through Functional Productization: a simulation approach (2018)
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Reed, S., Karlberg, M., Kyosti, P., & Sas, D. (2018). Quantified economic and environmental values through Functional Productization: a simulation approach. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 70, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eiar.2018.03.006

Industrial companies rely on hardware and services from external providers to deliver functions that are critical to their operations, increasingly demanding solutions that not only meet technical and availability requirements but are sustainable too... Read More about Quantified economic and environmental values through Functional Productization: a simulation approach.

An efficient algorithm for exact computation of system and survival signatures using binary decision diagrams (2017)
Journal Article
Reed, S. (in press). An efficient algorithm for exact computation of system and survival signatures using binary decision diagrams. Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 165, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ress.2017.03.036

System and survival signatures are important and popular tools for studying and analysing the reliability of systems. However, it is difficult to compute these signatures for systems with complex reliability structure functions and large numbers of c... Read More about An efficient algorithm for exact computation of system and survival signatures using binary decision diagrams.

Maintenance processes modelling and optimisation (2017)
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Zhang, Y., Andrews, J., Reed, S., & Karlberg, M. (in press). Maintenance processes modelling and optimisation. Reliability Engineering and System Safety, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ress.2017.02.011

A Maintenance Procedure is conducted in order to prevent the failure of a system or to restore the functionality of a failed system. Such a procedure consists of a series of tasks, each of which has a distribution of times to complete and a probabili... Read More about Maintenance processes modelling and optimisation.

Effect of venepuncture process design on efficiency and failure rates: a simulation model study for secondary care (2016)
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Reed, S., Remenyte-Prescott, R., & Rees, B. (2017). Effect of venepuncture process design on efficiency and failure rates: a simulation model study for secondary care. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 68, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2016.12.010

Background: Healthcare aims to deliver good patient outcomes. For many clinical procedures there are multiple alternative task sequences that can be performed. These deviations can influence procedure reliability, efficiency of usage of hospital reso... Read More about Effect of venepuncture process design on efficiency and failure rates: a simulation model study for secondary care.

Estimating the availability of hydraulic drive systems operating under different functional profiles through simulation (2016)
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Reed, S., & Löfstrand, M. (2016). Estimating the availability of hydraulic drive systems operating under different functional profiles through simulation. Safety and Reliability, 35(2), 4-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/09617353.2015.11691038

Hydraulic drive systems are widely used in a variety of industrial applications where high torque and low speed rotational power are required. The advantages include maximum torque from zero speed, continuously variable speed within wide limits, high... Read More about Estimating the availability of hydraulic drive systems operating under different functional profiles through simulation.

Analysis of the contributions to the performance of a functional product design using simulation (2016)
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Reed, S., Löfstrand, M., Karlsson, L., & Andrews, J. (in press). Analysis of the contributions to the performance of a functional product design using simulation. Safety and Reliability, 34(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/09617353.2014.11691005

Functional products (FP) consist of combined hardware, software and support services that are sold to the customer under performance-based contracts that guarantee a specified level of functional availability. The supplier is responsible for the deve... Read More about Analysis of the contributions to the performance of a functional product design using simulation.

Reliability assessment techniques for medical procedures (2016)
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Reed, S., Remenyte-Prescott, R., & Rees, B. (2016). Reliability assessment techniques for medical procedures. Safety and Reliability, 35(2), 67-68

Healthcare aims to deliver good patient outcomes. However deviations in the application of medical procedures can result in failure to deliver reliable care, variation in patient results, waste of hospital resources and increase of risk to staff and... Read More about Reliability assessment techniques for medical procedures.

A reliability analysis method using binary decision diagrams in phased mission planning (2009)
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Prescott, D., Remenyte-Prescott, R., Reed, S., Andrews, J., & Downes, C. (2009). A reliability analysis method using binary decision diagrams in phased mission planning. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part O: Journal of Risk and Reliability, 223(2), https://doi.org/10.1243/1748006XJRR202

The use of autonomous systems is becoming increasingly common in many fields. A significant example of this is the ambition to deploy UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) for both civil and military applications. In order for autonomous systems such as th... Read More about A reliability analysis method using binary decision diagrams in phased mission planning.