Abstract

Job processing systems in any industry play a significant role in optimizing cost and thus increasing the profit. This analysis for a mini-rice mill defers from what can be suitable for a major rice-mill particularly in terms of the number of functioning units. In view of a host of mini-rice mills engaged in the processing of paddy in the state of Chhattisgarh, this research paper has been worked out. The study is based on a mini-rice mill having multiple functioning units by taking failure rates as exponential and arbitrary repair rates. In this analysis various economic related measures such as mean time to system failure, Point wise Availability, Busy period of the repairman and expected profit are also evaluated to facilitate the research outcomes. A particular case has also been discussed along with the graphical representation.

Author: S. K. Singh, V. K. Pathak and R. C. Ram

Received on: July, 2007

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