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There are many situations when a number of manufacturing systems (of either electronic or machine parts) are scheduled to be in operation performing specified duties, e.g., the manufacture of consumer goods or to provide service contracted for within a scheduled time. These situations require that a fixed number of machines be in operation and so this “fleet” must be repaired or replaced in a timely manner. There are other situations where the service or manufacturing process becomes so technically intricate that no part can be disrupted without extreme cost. This complication indicates that applicable mathematical models for repairable systems should have been studieded with results readily available for cognizant managers of operational planning.
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Saunders, S.C. (2007). Maintenance of Systems. In: Reliability, Life Testing and the Prediction of Service Lives. Springer Series in Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-48538-6_15
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