Article ID: | iaor19961973 |
Country: | United States |
Volume: | 43 |
Issue: | 3 |
Start Page Number: | 319 |
End Page Number: | 334 |
Publication Date: | Apr 1996 |
Journal: | Naval Research Logistics |
Authors: | Sheu Shey-Huei, Griffith William S. |
A system is subject to shocks that arrive according to a nonhomogeneous Poisson process. As shocks occur a system has two types of failures. Type 1 failure (minor failure) is removed by a minimal repair, whereas type 2 failure (catastrophic failure) is removed by replacement. The probability of a type 2 failure is permitted to depend on the number of shocks since the last replacement. A system is replaced at the times of type 2 failure or at the