| Article ID: | iaor19931678 |
| Country: | India |
| Volume: | 29 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Start Page Number: | 291 |
| End Page Number: | 296 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 1992 |
| Journal: | OPSEARCH |
| Authors: | Sinha Pritibhushan |
The paper presents an inspection policy for components which safeguard another system from incoming shocks. Assuming Poisson arrival pattern for shocks and exponential lives for the components, it is shown that the optimal policy may considerably improve the performance of the system, compared to the case when there is no inspection schedule.