The availability of a repairable system represents a basic and elementary measure within reliability engineering. But the mean time between failures (MTBF)and the mean time to repair (MTTR)
which are commonly difficult to know
are by themselves quantities of practical interest
and can be even more important than system availability. This paper presents a method to determine the MTBF and MTFR of a repairable system with unlimited repair and exponential inter-failure and repair time at component level.