GERT, A Useful Technique for Analyzing Reliability Problems

Stochastic networks and GERT, in particular, are used to analyze Reliability Problems. The advantages of the method are found to be (a) the flexibility of the logical nodes available in GERT, (b) the magnitude of information available from the system such as conditional network probabilities and times, counts on elements in the network and renewal times on the elements in the network, and (c) the ability to model complex reliability problems.