"idle machine" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a machine that is not operating, usually because it lacks a power source or operator. For example, "The factory was filled with idle machines that hadn't been used in years".
Evicted processes are remigrated to a different idle machine or executed on their home machine.
But no amount of tax breaks will make a good investment out of an idle machine tool or a dark strand of fiber.
Ancillary costs, such as those of reagents, typically are tied in complex ways to machine utilization, so the cost of an idle machine may be more than simply its inconvenience or the downstream costs of lost clinical services.
"You want hospitals that seek to be empty, doctors that seek to be idle, machines that are few.
And it is not just individuals: the web makes it easier for companies to rent out spare offices and idle machines, too.
In one factory, where a staff of 200 is now down to 30, the manager points to empty floors and idle machines.
The migration mechanism keeps track of idle machines, uses them for migration, and evicts migrated processes when a workstation's owner returns, so that migration doesn't impact the response time of active users.
Then, based on this LCS, the shortest composite supersequence (SCS) is constructed by combining the LCS and the rest of the operation while giving consideration to bypassing moves and idle machines.
To address the problem of how to allow a reconfigurable manufacturing system to simultaneously consider efficiency and flexibility, a method is presented for the formation of part family that considers bypassing moves and idle machines.
Other design aspects are to design a multi-floor layout to form cells in different floors, a multi-rows layout of equal area facilities in each cell, flexible reconfigurations of cells during successive periods, distance-based material handling cost, and machine depot keeping idle machines.
In a fluctuating shop floor environment, a process plan generated in advance is often found unsuitable or unusable to the targeted resources, resulting both in wasted effort spent in early process planning and in productivity drop when idle machines have to wait for operations to be re-planned.
