Scheduling spares with exponential lifetimes in a two-component parallel system |
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Authors: | Gideon Weiss |
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Affiliation: | Department of Statistics, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel |
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Abstract: | A set of n spare components whose life lengths are exponentially distributed with rates μ1, …,μn are available to keep a two-component parallel system in operation. We derive the optimal order of replacement of failed components in order to maximize the system life length. |
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