Article ID: | iaor20002000 |
Country: | United States |
Volume: | 46 |
Issue: | 7 |
Start Page Number: | 822 |
End Page Number: | 844 |
Publication Date: | Oct 1999 |
Journal: | Naval Research Logistics |
Authors: | Pham-Gia T., Turkkan N. |
We measure the effectiveness of a repairable system by the proportion of time the system is on, where on-time and off-times are assumed independent and both gamma-distributed. This measure is helpful for system planning and control in the short term, before the steady-state is reached, and its mean value is intermediary between instantaneous and steady-state availabilities. We also present other significant results concerning the Gamma Alternating Renewal Process.