“…Here, the author proposes, in the context of Markov process modelling and stationary performance measure, an importance measure based on partial derivative with respect to a parameter. This measure, also called multi-directional sensitivity measure, can be an efficient tool to investigate not only the importance of a given component, but also the importance of a class of components, the importance of a system state and, more generally, the effect of the simultaneous change of several design parameters that are related to the components or the system’s state (Do Van et al , 2008; Peng et al , 2012; Zaitseva, 2012; Kumar et al , 2018; Kumar et al , 2017). In the present paper, this analysis has been done for system reliability as well as MTTF for finding which failure affects the system reliability and MTTF the most.…”