A nonrenewable minimal-repair warranty policy with time-dependent costs

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 346-352

  Ja, Shau Shiang ^a   Kulkarni, Vidyadhar G ^b   Mitra, Amitava ^c   Patankar, Jayprakash G ^d  

^a AMR   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

Author keywords

Anticipated warranty cost; Market share; Minimal repair; Product life cycle; Warranty reserve

Indexed keywords

CONSUMER PRODUCTS; COSTS; LIFE CYCLE; MARKETING; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; QUALITY ASSURANCE; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ANTICIPATED WARRANTY COST; FAILURE RATE; MARKET SHARE; MINIMAL REPAIR; PRODUCT LIFE CYCLE; WARRANTY RESERVE;

RELIABILITY THEORY;

EID: 0035719370     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/24.983392     Document Type: Article

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