A note on the optimal replacement problem

The paper studies a new repair replacement model for a deteriorating system, in which the successive survival times of the system form a geometric process and are stochastically non-increasing, whereas the consecutive repair times after failure also constitute a geometric process but are stochastically non-decreasing. Two kinds of replacement policy are considered, one based on the working age of the system and the other one determined by the number of failures. The explicit expressions of the long-run average costs per unit time under these two kinds of policy are calculated.