Mechatronics, the art of combining robotics, computer control, and electronics, was the topic at the recent annual M 2 VIP conference (mechatronics and machine vision in practice) held at the University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia, 23‐25 September. This was the fourth...

Deals with the cost benefit analysis of a one server two dissimilar unit cold standby system in which we consider two different repair policies, namely: (1) policy 1 : retain the repair facility throughout; (2) policy 2 : call for the repair facility only when both the units are in failed...