Managing Supply Chain and Operations 1st Edition by Thomas Foster ,Scott Sampson,Cynthia Wallin,Scott Webb

Exercise 30

A company must purchase a critical piece of industrial equipment from one of two suppliers, A or B. The company's manufacturing engineer is using several criteria on which to evaluate the suppliers, one of which is system availability. Given the following mean time between failures (MTBF) and mean time to repair (MTTR) data, calculate the system availability for each supplier.