On the interaction between maintenance, spare part inventories and repair capacity for a k-out-of-N system with wear-out

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 174, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 182-200

  de Smidt Destombes, Karin S ^a   van der Heijden, Matthieu C ^b   van Harten, Aart ^b  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ageing; k out of N systems; Maintenance; Priority setting; Repair capacity; Spare parts

Indexed keywords

AGING OF MATERIALS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; CONDITION MONITORING; FAILURE (MECHANICAL); MAINTENANCE; OPTIMIZATION; REPAIR;

K-OUT-OF-N SYSTEMS; PRIORITY SETTING; REPAIR CAPACITY; SPARE PARTS;

INVENTORY CONTROL;

EID: 33845295516     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2005.02.043     Document Type: Article

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