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Machine Repair Problem in Production Systems with Spares and Server Vacations

Jau-Chuan Ke, Ssu-Lang Lee, Cheng-Hwai Liou (2009)

RAIRO - Operations Research

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This paper studies the machine repair problem consisting of operating machines with spare machines, and servers (repairmen) who leave for a vacation of random length when there are no failed machines queuing up for repair in the repair facility. At the end of the vacation the servers return to the repair facility and operate one of three vacation policies: single vacation, multiple vacation, and hybrid single/multiple vacation. The Markov process and the matrix-geometric approach...