Optimal age-replacement policy under an imperfect renewing free-replacement warranty

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 125-133

  Chien, Yu Hung ^a  

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

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

AGING OF MATERIALS; COSTS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE; RELIABILITY;

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

PURCHASING;

EID: 41449090824     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2007.909769     Document Type: Article

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