We introduce a new combined repair process to describe repairs that are initially better-than-minimal, then become minimal, before finally becoming worse-than-minimal. The extended generalized Polya process (EGPP), non-homogeneous Poisson process (NHPP), and generalized Polya process (GPP) are used to describe this repair pattern, respectively. Several useful properties are derived for the combined process under two settings: change in repair type after a specified time and change in repair type after a specified number of failures/repairs. As an application, the optimal age replacement problem is defined and its optimal solution is analyzed. Detailed numerical examples support our findings.
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