R. Shenbagam and Sarada Yedida
The objective of this article is to investigate a shock model for a cold standby repairable deteriorating system with non-negligible phase type quasi-renewal process maintenance…
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Purpose
The objective of this article is to investigate a shock model for a cold standby repairable deteriorating system with non-negligible phase type quasi-renewal process maintenance times and threshold with spare.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper aims to assess the significance of a property of phase type quasi-renewal processes, it is easy to evaluate the theory concept of a cold standby repairable deteriorating system subject to random shocks and stochastic lead time via phase type quasi-renewal processes.
Findings
The current research work obtained an optimal replacement policy N* analytically and numerically for a cold standby repairable deteriorating system with spare using a phase type quasi-renewal process.
Originality/value
The study of a random threshold shock model for a cold standby repairable deteriorating system with spare via-phase type quasi-renewal processes has not been reported anywhere in the literature. In addition, in such a context, an optimal replacement policy N* has not been obtained analytically. The current research paper is to bridge the gap in the literature. The numerical example presented indicates that a maintenance policy suggested in this article aids in generating a significantly.
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Sarada Yedida and Shenbagam R.
Technological advancements and growing complexity of many real-time systems, namely, communication, transportation, defense systems, etc., necessitate the importance to adopt a…
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Purpose
Technological advancements and growing complexity of many real-time systems, namely, communication, transportation, defense systems, etc., necessitate the importance to adopt a well-planned repair process such as phase type quasi-renewal process contributing to an improved system performance. Further, in an attempt to boost the role of maintenance as a financial benefactor, repairman’s multiple vacation policy is incorporated. Also, the significance of the degree of repair is illustrated while indicating the suitability of the matrix-analytic approach via the phase type quasi-renewal operating/repair times in reliability. The paper aims to discuss these issues.
Design/methodology/approach
The optimal replacement policy is obtained by employing the matrix-analytic method and minimum average cost rate.
Findings
The considered models make a significant contribution towards establishing that the matrix-analytic method, using the phase type quasi-renewal process, aids in reducing the computations and also fills the gap in the literature in the study of deteriorating systems. Availability and rate of occurrence of failures are evaluated in transient and steady-state regime.
Originality/value
This model differs from the existing models, in that, a repairman’s multiple vacation, delayed repair time and representation of the failure occurrence by a mixed Poisson process have been incorporated into the analysis. Also, time-dependent case and N-policy have been adopted to explore the optimality issues using phase type quasi-renewal process analytically. The numerical illustrations warrant that the maintenance policy proposed in this paper produces a considerably lower cost.
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Sarada Yedida and Mubashir Unnissa Munavar
The purpose of this paper is to investigate preventive‐repair warranty policies for repairable deteriorating systems using Zhang's geometric process repair model.
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to investigate preventive‐repair warranty policies for repairable deteriorating systems using Zhang's geometric process repair model.
Design/methodology/approach
The paper aims to establish the importance of preventive repair during warranty. Three cost models have been developed using the average cost rate for the system as the objective function, employing N‐policy for two models therein.
Findings
The models have practical applications in warranty cost analysis, as product warranty is an important factor in designing an optimal maintenance policy.
Originality/value
The paper observes that product warranty has not been considered in the study of maintenance policies for repairable deteriorating systems using monotone processes. The numerical example given illustrates that a preventive repair during warranty with N‐policy is preferable compared with a non‐warranted product or a warranted product without preventive repair.