Question: Assume that a maintenance team performs different maintenance operations on the machines of a certain factory. The time between failures was found to follow an
Assume that a maintenance team performs different maintenance operations on the machines of a certain
factory. The time between failures was found to follow an exponential distribution with an average of hours,
while the time to repair a machine was found to be exponentially distributed with an average of hours. The
maintenance manager found that the average number of machines waiting in the queue is machines, with an
average waiting time of hours. If he wishes to reduce both numbers by hiring another team, he has two options:
to have both teams sharing the same queue, and to have each team with a separate queue. It is required
to:
i Calculate the average number of machines waiting in queue, for both options,
ii Calculate the average waiting time in queue, for both cases,
iii Comment on the comparison, whether they are different or same.
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