Evaluation of time-varying availability in multi-echelon spare parts systems with passivation

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 170, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 91-105

  Lau, Hoong Chuin ^a   Song, Huawei ^a   See, Chuen Teck ^b   Cheng, Siew Yen ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Inventory; Maintenance; Multi echelon; Passivation

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MAINTENANCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PASSIVATION; REPAIR; TIME VARYING SYSTEMS;

MULTI-ECHELON; SPARE PARTS; SYSTEM FAILURE; TIME-VARYING AVAILABILITY;

INVENTORY CONTROL;

EID: 25844469868     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2004.06.022     Document Type: Article

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