On a two-dissimilar-unit standby system with three modes and administrative delay in repair
Abstract This paper considers a two-dissimilar-unit cold standby redundant system with three modes of each unit under the assumption that there is an administrative delay in getting the repair man at the system location. The system is analyzed by the semi-Markov process technique, assuming that the failure time, repair time and administrative time distributions are general and arbitrary. Some reliability measures of interest to system designers as well as operations managers have been obtained. Further, special cases of the results of this paper coincide with earlier results obtained by Pandey and by Gupta.