This work is concerned with manufacturing systems with two failure-prone tandem machines. The production is regulated by a continuous version of bu er control. Our goal is to obtain an optimal bu er-control policy to minimize a long run average cost function. Concentrating on threshold type of control policies, our e ort is devoted to parameter optimization problems for the continuous material ...

In this paper, we analyze a machine repairable system with warm spares and two repairmen. The first repairman never takes vacations. The second repairman leaves for a vacation of random length when the number of the failed units is less than N. At the end of a vacation period, this repairman returns back if there are N or more failed units accumulated in the system. Otherwise this repairman goe...

---------------------------------------------------------------ABSTRACT-----------------------------------------------------In this paper, an M/M/1 queueing system with server Start-up, N-Policy, breakdowns at two phases of service and Balking is analyzed. Customers arrive at the system according to a Poisson process. They receive the first phase service as a batch followed by second essential ...

In this paper, we study N-policy for a finite population Bernoulli feedback queueing model for machine repair problem with degraded failure. The running times of the machines between breakdowns have an exponential distribution. The repair times of the machines are independent and identically distributed random variables. If at any time a machine fails, it is sent to the repairman for repairing,...

This study considers a -policy Geo/G/1 queue with startup and closedown times. The -policy operates as follows. On completion of the vacation, if there are customers in the queue, the server is either to activate with probability p or to stay dormant in the system with probability 1-p for waiting a new arrival; and if no customer presents in the queue, the server obeys classical sin...

This paper presents the optimal flow control for a one-machine, two-product manufacturing system subject to random failures and repairs. The machine capacity process is assumed to be a finite state Markov chain. The problem is to choose the production rates so as to minimize the expected discounted cost of inventory/backlog over an infinite horizon. We first show that for constant demand rates ...

In industrial systems, the K-out-of-N: G system is a prominent type of redundancy. The load sharing protects such from malfunctioning/destroying and avoids overload problem that affects reliability in significant manner. this paper we develop Markovian model load-sharing having non-identical repairable components wherein server may on working vacation. During his vacation period, repairs failed...

This paper deals with machine repair problem with balking and reneging. There is provision of mixed standby (warm and cold) components to replace the failed machines. The lifetime and repair time are assumed to have exponential distribution. Birth-death technique is suggested to obtain the queue size distribution in explicit form. A repair facility of C permanent repairmen is facilitated to rep...

This paper proposes three wake-up approaches to reduce the battery power consumption for a mobile multimedia handset. These approaches switch the system into the sleep mode when the memory queue for the arriving packets is empty. Depending on the approaches, various wake-up mechanisms are considered. The threshold approach switches on the system when the number of packets in the memory queue is...

This study presents and discusses the home delivery services in stochastic queuing-inventory modeling (SQIM). system consists of two servers: one server manages inventory sales processes, other provides at doorstep customers. Based on Bernoulli schedule, a customer served by first may opt for service. If any chooses option, he hands over purchased item leaves immediately. Otherwise, carries sys...