Abstract. The device named autoclave used in pharma industries has been studied in this paper. This study provides the discussion how to obtain the reliability testing strategy of two dis-similar parallel units. The system is considered to be in operative condition if at least one out of two is in operative state. A single repair facility is available for repairing both kinds of failed units. In addition to repair mechanism, inspection policy has also been introduced for failed automatic unit. But the manual one does not require any such supervision facilty. Various essential measures of system effectiveness such as mean time to system failure (MTSF), steady state availability, busy period of supervisor and repairman are examined probabilistically by using geometric distribution and regenerative point techniques. A graph has been plotted to represent the behaviour of profit function and MTSF with respect to different failure and repair rate.
IntroductionWith significant advances in the design and development of highly complex equipments, and the use of such equipments under high stress conditions and relatively unknown exotic environments, the problems of performance failures began to demand increasing attention. Under reliability analysis many researchers had given their contribution for analyzing different models using exponential distribution. M. Y. Haggag [4] had analyzed the two dissimilar cold standby system using continuous distribution. The concept of critical human error with periodic inspection had been introduced by S. M. Rizwan and A. Mohiuddin [9]. He deals with the single server who inspects the degraded unit at its failure to see the feasibility of repair. Later J. Kumar