Optimal age-replacement policy for nonrepairable products under renewing free-replacement warranty

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 92-97

  Yeh, Ruey Huei ^a   Chen, Gaung Cheng ^b   Chen, Ming Yuh ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b CHIHLEE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Age replacement policy; Long run expected cost rate; Renewing free replacement warranty

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

AGE REPLACEMENT POLICY; LONG-RUN EXPECTED COST RATE; NONREPAIRABLE PRODUCTS; RENEWING FREE-REPLACEMENT WARRANTY;

RELIABILITY THEORY;

EID: 15544368894     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2004.841723     Document Type: Article

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