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Procedia Engineering 29 (2012) 531 – 536 1877-7058 ? 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd. doi:10.1016/eng.2011.12.756 Available online at Available online at Procedia Engineering 00 (2011) 000–000 Procedia Engineering /locate/procedia 2012 International Workshop on Information and Electronics Engineering (IWIEE) Multi-State System Reliability: A New and Systematic Review Gu Yingkuia*, Li Jing a aSchool of Mechanical and Electronical Engineering, Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, Ganzhou, 341000 China Abstract Reliability analysis considering multiple possible states is known as multi-state (MS) reliability analysis. Multi-state system reliability models allow both the system and its components to assume more than two levels of performance. Through multi-state reliability models provide more realistic and more precise representations of engineering systems, they are much more complex and present major difficulties in system definition and performance evaluation. MSS reliability has received a substantial amount of attention in the past four decades. This article presents a new and systematic review about multi-state system reliability. A timely review is an effective work related to improving the development of MSS theory. The review about the latest studies and advances about multi-state system reliability evaluation, multi-state systems optimization and multi-state systems maintenance is summarized in this paper. ? 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of Harbin University of Science and Technology Keywords: Multi-state system; reliability evaluation; optimization; maintenance 1. Introduction Reliability engineering is the discipline of ensuring that a system will be reliable when operated in a specified manner. The classical reliability theory assumes that a component or a system can only be in one of two possible states, either working or failed. However, engineering systems typica