Author : Ajay Kumar, R.K. Garg and P.C. Tiwari

The major cause of production loss in brewery industry is the Machine failures which stopped the production operations. The Markov approach is used for studying the Performance modeling and Availability analysis of a Malt Mill system in brewery plant by using the concept of performance analysis. For carrying out analysis, transition diagrams (TD) for various subsystems in the brewery plant are drawn and Chapman-Kolmogorov differential equations associated with TD are derived. The probability of each state is calculated in terms of probability of full working state. The failure and repair time distributions are assumed to be exponential behavior. The performance analysis of the system in steady state conditions is analyzed using the data related to system’s real operational behavior of a brewery system. The simulation model has been used for analyzing system availability for varying failure and the repair rates using the MATLAB tool. The dynamic behavior of the corresponding values of reliability is estimated for one year by using RungeKuttamethod of fourth order.

Keywords: Availability, Failure rate, Markov, Performance Modeling, Transition Diagram (TD)

Article published in International Journal of Current  Engineering  and Technology, Vol.4,No.3 (June- 2014)