Profit maximizing warranty period with sales expressed by a demand function

Quality and Reliability Engineering International

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 291-301

  Ladany, Shaul P ^a   Shore, Haim ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cobb Douglas type demand function; Lower specification limit; Optimization; Response Modeling Methodology (RMM); Warranty period

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; OPTIMIZATION; PROFITABILITY; QUALITY CONTROL; SALES;

COBB-DOUGLAS-TYPE DEMAND FUNCTION; LOWER SPECIFICATION LIMIT; RESPONSE MODELING METHODOLOGY (RMM); WARRANTY PERIOD;

INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS;

EID: 34047156999     PISSN: 07488017     EISSN: 10991638     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qre.790     Document Type: Conference Paper

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