Scheduling spares with exponential lifetimes in a two-component parallel system

✍ Scribed by Gideon Weiss

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1984
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 677 KB
• Volume: 31
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0894-069X
• DOI: 10.1002/nav.3800310309

✦ Synopsis

A set of n spare components whose life lengths are exponentially distributed with rates b,, . . . ,p,, are available to keep a two-component parallel system in operation. We derive the optimal order of replacement of failed components in order to maximize the system life length.