Operations Research Transactions ›› 2025, Vol. 29 ›› Issue (4): 191-204.doi: 10.15960/j.cnki.issn.1007-6093.2025.04.015

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Research on the waiting time distribution of a machine maintenance model with replaceable repair facility and repairman's multiple vacations

Wenqing WU1, Haiwen XU1,*(), Miaomiao YU2, Kelong ZHENG1   

  1. 1. Faculty of Science, Civil Aviation Flight University of China, Chengdu 641419, Sichuan, China
    2. School of Mathematical Sciences, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu 610068, Sichuan, China
  • Received:2022-11-16 Online:2025-12-15 Published:2025-12-11
  • Contact: Haiwen XU E-mail:hwxu@cafuc.edu.cn

Abstract:

This paper considers the waiting time distribution of an arbitrary failed machine in a machine repair system with a replaceable repair facility and repairman's multiple vacations where the operating time and the repair time of machines all follow exponential distributions. By employing the Markov Chain with absorbing time, the probabilistic properties of the phase-type distribution and the Laplace-Stieltjes transform, the specific expressions of the waiting time distribution of failed machines and its mean waiting time are all derived. Based on this, we discuss the time-dependent behavior of the system performance measures and provide numerical results of the waiting time.

Key words: machine repair system, replaceable repair facility, multiple vacations, phase type distribution, the waiting time distribution of failed machine

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