| Article ID: | iaor19992234 |
| Country: | India |
| Volume: | 35 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Start Page Number: | 154 |
| End Page Number: | 158 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 1998 |
| Journal: | OPSEARCH |
| Authors: | Vanderperre E.J., Makhanov S.S., Sonthipaumpoon K. |
| Keywords: | quality & reliability |
We consider a multiple cold standby system attended by a single repairman. The system satisfies the usual conditions (independent, identically distributed random variable, perfect repair, instantaneous and perfect switch, queuing). The operative unit has constant failure rate but an arbitrary repair time distribution. We analyze the total idle time of the repairman during the survival time of the system. Finally, as an application, we consider the case of deterministic repair.