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Optimal policies for machine repairmen problems

Part of:Operations research and management science

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Esther Frostig
Esther Frostig*
Affiliation:
University of Haifa
*
∗ Postal address: Department of Statistics, University of Haifa, Mount Carmel, Haifa 31999, Israel.
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Abstract

n unreliable machines are maintained by m repairmen. Assuming exponentially distributed up-time and repair time we find the optimal policy to allocate the repairmen to the failed machines in order to stochastically minimize the time until all machines work. Considering only one repairman, we find the optimal policy to maximize the expected total discount time that machines work. We find the optimal policy for the cases where the up-time and repair time are exponentially distributed or identically arbitrarily distributed up-times and increasing failure rate distribution repair times.

Keywords

MARKOV DECISION PROCESSRELIABILITYPRODUCTION

MSC classification

Primary:90C40: Markov and semi-Markov decision processes
Secondary:90B25: Reliability, availability, maintenance, inspection90B30: Production models

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Research Papers
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Journal of Applied Probability , Volume 30 , Issue 3 , September 1993, pp. 703 - 715
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1993 

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