Evaluation of Generating System Reliability Indices Under Limited Repair Facility

A generating system having n units, where each unit is represented by a 2-state device, will have more than 2n possible states when repair facility of the system is limited, i.e. number of repair crews is less than the number of units. When the number of units failed is more than the number of repair crews available, the most recent failures queue for repairs. This paper gives a general equation to determine the number of system states under limited repair facility and an approximate technique to determine the probabilities of system states and reliability indices of the system.