Research Article
ReliabilityandSensitivityAnalysisofaRepairableSystemwith
WarrantyandAdministrativeDelayinRepair
MohamedS.El-Sherbeny
1,2
andZienabM.Hussien
1
1
Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Sciences and Arts-Rabigh Campus, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
2
Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt
Correspondence should be addressed to Mohamed S. El-Sherbeny; m_el_sherbeny@yahoo.com
Received 18 April 2021; Revised 24 May 2021; Accepted 31 May 2021; Published 10 June 2021
Academic Editor: Niansheng Tang
Copyright © 2021 Mohamed S. El-Sherbeny and Zienab M. Hussien. is is an open access article distributed under the Creative
Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the
original work is properly cited.
e purpose of this study is to analyze the behavior of some industrial systems in light of the cost-free warranty policy. According
to this policy, we assume that the repairman is not always present in the system. When the active unit fails, the repairman will be
called to visit the system; however, administrative procedures may delay the visit for some time. Once on the system, the
repairman first inspects whether the fault is caused by the user or not and whether it is repairable or not. According to product
warranty laws, the repairman carries out the repair or replacement of the faulty unit. e failure time, administrative delay time,
inspection time, and repair time are assumed taken as a negative exponential distribution. e system model is analyzed by the
supplementary variable technique and Laplace transform, as various performance metrics of system efficiency have been obtained.
e sensitivity and relative sensitivity analyses for the system parameters have also been performed. Finally, an illustrative example
is taken to illustrate the efficiency of the system.
1.Introduction
In the present time, warranty is a necessary condition for
selling many industrial products. Warranty is defined as the
mandatory contract afforded by a manufacturer with regard
to the sale of a product. In other words, the warranty is a legal
responsibility in the following cases: early failure of the
product or the disability of the product to perform its
function. When selling a product, the warranty covers either
free repair or free replacement. Rules of the warranty are
classified as follows: (1) the manufacturer is not legally re-
sponsible for the product in case of failure due to incorrect
and careless use or deterioration of the product by the user;
this makes the customer responsible for the cost of the
product repair; (2) the customer is not legally responsible for
the product in the following cases: (a) manufacturing defects
and (b) errors in software; this makes the manufacturer re-
sponsible for free repair or free replacement of the product.
More recently, users have distinguished single-unit
systems due to their ability to afford the cost and ingrained
reliability. erefore, reliability models of single-unit sys-
tems have been examined by researchers, such as Kumar
et al. [1], Du et al. [2], Goel and Mumtaz [3], Ram and
Kadyan [4], Attia et al. [5], and Malhotra and Taneja [6],
under different conditions from failure and repair policies
without interest paying much attention to any warranty
policies and service agreement. e only way to ensure the
efficiency of the product sold is after-sales services related to
warranty policy. erefore, the longer warranty leads to best
reliability and provides convenience for the users. Kadyan
and Ramniwas [7] calculated the cost benefit of the single-
unit system and derived some reliability measures when
applying warranty policy on the system. e profit function
of industrial system with the presence of a cost-free warranty
policy is obtained by Ram and Garg [8]. Effect warranty
policies on remanufactured products are discussed by
Alqahtani and Gupta [9]. Ram et al. [10] study system
consists of a single unit with inspection for the feasibility of
repair beyond the warranty. Ram et al. [11] presented the
concept of preventive maintenance (PM) beyond warranty
Hindawi
Journal of Mathematics
Volume 2021, Article ID 9424215, 9 pages
https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/9424215