This example has 2 pumps that are connected by pipeline with a buffer in the middle:
pump 1 → buffer → pump 2.
The details are:
the model has only 2 items, pump 1 and pump 2, they are mutually independent and both have:
maximum capacity 17 (ton/day)
exponential lifetime, with scale 0.001, that is MTTF = 8.766 (hour), 1/1000 of a year
exponential downtime, with MTTR = 8.766 (hour)
the pipeline is modelled as a single edge, with infinite capacity and no downtime
the buffer size corresponds to 1 period of average downtime at full production capacity, it equals 1 * 17 * 8.766 = 149 (ton/day hour)
The long-term average reliability of this simple network has a known exact solution, it's 3/8, see Enginarlar_Li_Meerkov_buffer_2002.pdf.
The steps to run the ARTIS simulation of this network are: