The purpose of present paper is to analyze the performance of a paper machine using stochastic modeling of a single unit considering various types of minor/major faults and removal thereof by repair/replacement of different parts as well as power failure during operation of the machine. On occurrence of minor faults, operation of the machine is partially stopped while due to major faults, machine stopped working completely. A real data related to different failures is collected from a famous paper mill in Northern Haryana namely Sri Jagdumbe Paper Mills Ltd. located at Sirsa (Haryana). Various measures of system-effectiveness such as MTSF, Reliability, Availability and Busy period etc. are derived by using Semi-Markov process and Regenerative Point technique. Using collected data, various numerical results and graphs are drawn and performance of the system along with profit is analyzed, which may be helpful for the maintenance team of the paper mill.
Availability, busy period, performance analysis, profit, reliability, repair, replacement
