The purpose of the present paper is to carry out reliability
and profit analysis of a single-unit system considering the concept of
inspection under warranty. Within warranty, failures are rectified by
the manufacturer at no cost to the users provided warranty does not
apply to product failure due to user-induced damage such as cracked
screen, accident, misuse, physical damage, damage due to liquid and
unauthorized modifications, etc. The cost to rectify failures beyond
the warranty is borne by the users. After failure, unit goes under inspection
within warranty. There is single repairman, which is always
available with the system to do repair, inspection and replacement of
the unit. Repairman inspects the failed unit to see the feasibility of
its repair or replacement. If repair of the unit is not feasible, it is replaced
by new one.The time to failure of the system follows negative
exponential distribution while inspection and repair time distributions
are taken as arbitrary. By using supplementary variable technique, various
measures of system performance such as reliability, mean time to
system failure (MTSF), availability of the system and profit function
have been determined. The numerical results for reliability and profit
function are also obtained in the form of tables for particular values of
various parameters and repair cost.
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