MODELING UNDER MATLAB OF THE FUNCTIONAL AVAILABILITY OF A MEDICAL DEVICE BY A PROCESS OF MARKOV

Abstract

The reliability diagram of the parallel series type is used to look further into the study of the functional availability of a medical device. When one is interested at the binary state of operation of each component, the diagram of the parallel-series type, combined with a process of Markov in three states, can be useful like a tool to study the three situations of operation of a medical device. Adopted methodology allowed the establishment of a generating square matrix of the probabilities of the situations according to the component count or of characteristics.