Development of lifetime warranty policies and models for estimating costs

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 522-529

  Chattopadhyay, Gopinath ^a   Rahman, Anisur ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cost models; Lifetime warranties; Warranty policies

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE;

COST MODELS; LIFETIME WARRANTIES; PRODUCT WARRANTY;

MARKETING;

EID: 36849095029     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2007.02.005     Document Type: Article

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