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In this paper the Kamat-Riley (K-R) event-based Monte Carlo simulation method was used for reliability analysis of longwall shearer machine. Shearer machine consists of six subsystems; water, haulage, electrical, hydraulic, cutting arms and cable systems in a series network configuration. A shearer in the Tabas coal mine was selected as case study and its all failure data were collected and used for reliability analysis of subsystems. With negligible assumption of time to repair, a flowchart was built for programming the simulation process. The Matlab mathematical programming software was used for reliability simulation process. Finally the reliability plot of longwall shearer machine was achieved and upper and lower bound reliability were calculated. The results illustrate that the reliability of shearer machine reduces to zero in a period of 100h. There is a 50% chance that the shearer will not fail for the first 12h of operation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper describes the use of the mean cumulative function (MCF) and linear estimates based on the recurrence rate to predict the expected number of failures in the future. Reliability data from two repairable units are used to verify the procedure and comparison. The empirical data used in the paper is based on field data gathered during the operational life of the Swedish military aircraft system FPL 37 Viggen from 1977 to 2006, which essentially is the whole life cycle of the system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]