ASYMMETRIC PATROLLING REPAIRMAN SYSTEMS WITH GENERAL REPAIR TIME AND WALK TIME DISTRIBUTIONS - COST-ANALYSIS OF SERVICE SCHEDULE Academic Article

abstract

• Patrolling repairman systems (PRS) consist of multiple machines serviced by a single repairman. We offer here an approach for modeling asymmetric PRS with general repair time and walk time distributions, and develop a cost measure suitable for comparing the costs of various service schedules (patrolling disciplines) in a PRS. The probabilistic behavior of a broad class of PRS is characterized via certain semi-regenerative and Markov renewal processes. The properties of these processes are employed in obtaining a cost measure. The computational details involved in the application of this modeling approach are shown for a simple example. 1993 IIE.

authors

• Wortman, Martin

published proceedings

• IIE TRANSACTIONS

author list (cited authors)

• DAS, T. K., & WORTMAN, M. A.

citation count

• 1

complete list of authors

• DAS, TK||WORTMAN, MA

publication date

• November 1993

publisher

• Taylor & Francis  Publisher

published in

• IIE Transactions  Journal

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1080/07408179308964324

start page

• 19

end page

• 26

volume

• 25

issue

• 6

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07408179308964324