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High system reliability can be achieved by redundancy and maintenance. It was shown by graph that the system can operate for a specified mean time by either the preventive replacement or increasing the number of redundant units [1, p. 64].
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Mizutani, S., Zhao, X., Nakagawa, T. (2023). Which is Better for Standby or Parallel Systems. In: Which-Is-Better (WIB): Problems in Reliability Theory. Springer Series in Reliability Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27316-2_6
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