Reliability modelling and cost benefit analysis of fruit juice manufacturing system

Abstract

This paper is based on a manufacturing unit situated in Jammu (J&K) and a model is developed for its reliability analysis. The proposed model comprising of four units viz. Fruit cutter, Fruit
Pulper, Sterilizer and Homogenizer. For the system to work, working of Sterilizer and Homogenizer is required, system fails only if Sterilizer or Homogenizer fails. A single repair facility is always
available with the system to repair Fruit Cutter and Fruit Pulper on first come first serve basis. A concept of Emergency repair is used in which a team of experts is called on the failure Homogenizer
or Sterilizer and the whole system comes under emergency repair in order to make the system ready as early as possible. All the failure time distributions are taken to be negative exponential and all the
repair time distributions are assumed to be general. Various reliability characteristics of interest have been studied along with graphical behaviour.