Abstract

This paper is concerned with modeling and analysis of a milk powder making system in a dairy plant consisting of a number of subsystems of varying nature. Taking constant failure rate and general repair time distribution for each subsystem, the system is analyzed by using regenerative point technique. A common cause failure is also considered in system modeling. The expressions for several system characteristics such as reliability, , steady state availability, busy period and expected profit, which are useful to system managers, engineers, training supervisors and reliability analysts, are obtained. The and profit function have also been studied through graphs in respect of various parameters in a particular case when repair time distributions are taken as Erlangian.

Author: Rakesh Gupta, Gaurav Varshney and Vishal Sharma

Received on: March, 2005

Accepted on: May, 2007