EVALUATING REPAIR POLICIES

This paper builds on the research done by Liang et al. (2013). In their paper, they sketch a problem setting in which fleets of machines are used for production. All machines are subject to failure and sent to a repair shop if they break. Liang et al. (2013) propose several repair shop policies to process jobs in a repair shop. We implement some of these policies and replicate the results found in their paper. Furthermore, we extend the research by analyzing the short-term behavior. For this, we consider the model used by Liang et al. (2013) and relax some of the assumptions made by these authors.