Stochastic model analysis of a noodles manufacturing system

The paper deals with the stochastic analysis of noodles manufacturing plant. Various subsystems namely—FMCS (feeder system, mixing, compound process, slitting), steaming, CFC (cutting, frying process, cooling and packaging process) are arranged in a series configuration. For the purpose of achieving more reliability of the system an additional steaming unit is attached in parallel to the main steaming unit as a warm standby. Failure rate of the unit is linearly increasing while the distributions of time to repair are general. A single repairman is always available with the system to make the whole system more reliable and productive. The regenerating point technique is used to derive various measures of system effectiveness. The graphs of profit function and MTSF have also been successfully plotted using particular values of various parameters.