Optimal replacement for a one-unit system subject to delivery and test

Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 51-65

  Liao, Wei Peng ^a   Yuan, John ^b  

^a World Coll Journalism and Commun   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; MAINTAINABILITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; PUBLIC POLICY; FAILURE ANALYSIS; INVENTORY CONTROL; OPTIMIZATION; RANDOM PROCESSES; SERVICE LIFE; STATISTICAL METHODS;

GEOMETRIC DISTRIBUTIONS; OPERATIONAL UNITS; OPTIMUM REPLACEMENT POLICY; RANDOM DELIVERY TIME;

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; MAINTENANCE;

DETERMINISTIC LEAD TIMES; REPLACEMENT MODELS;

EID: 0031654815     PISSN: 13552511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/EUM0000000004484     Document Type: Article

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