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This paper deals with the analysis of profit function of an n-unit parallel trichotomous system subject to random shocks. Failure times are assumed to follow negative exponential distributions with different parameters whereas the repair time distributions are taken to be general. Several reliability characteristics of interest to system engineers/designers as well as operation managers have been evaluated using the supplimentary variable technique.