Comparison of two repairable systems

Abstract: Any repairable system improves (deteriorates) with time if the interarrival times of failure tend to get larger (smaller) in some sense. In this paper we consider two such repairable systems, and their performance in terms of several partial orderings of their respective interarrival times of failure are compared. The comparison of two systems’ improvement/deterioration under minimal repair policy has been characterized in terms of - orders and also in terms of their shifted and dispersive versions. These results generalize some of the existing results in the literature and also provide some new results in this direction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]