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This investigation presents a method for determining the optimum mean time between failures (MTBF), mean time to repair (MTTR), and the number of redundant units to use in a multistage system to achieve a given availability at minimum cost. The method (basically a dynamic programming algorithm) is illustrated by a three-stage example.
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Lambert et al. (1971) studied this question.
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