Reliability Analysis of Pharmaceutical Plant Using Matlab-Tool

The purpose of paper is to compute reliability of a Pharmaceutical plant. A Pharmaceutical plant consists of nine sub-systems working in series. One subsystem namely Rotary Compression Machine is supported by stand-by units having perfect switch over devices and remaining eight subsystems are subjected to major failure only.

The mathematical model of Pharmaceutical plant has been developed using Markov birth – death Process. Equations are solved with the help of matlab-program.

The study of analysis of reliability can help in increasing the quality and production of Pharmaceutical plant. To ensure the system performance throughout its service life, it is necessary to set up proper maintenance planning and control which can be done after studying the variation of reliability with respect to time.

Industrial implications of the results have been discussed.