Cooperative strategies for the availability service of repairable aircraft components

International Journal of Production Economics

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 360-370

  Kilpi, Jani ^a,b   Töyli, Juuso ^b,c   Vepsäläinen, Ari ^b  

^a Finnair Oyj   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Aircraft maintenance; Inventory pooling; Repairable spare parts

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; MAINTAINABILITY; MAINTENANCE;

AIRCRAFT COMPONENTS; AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE; CLOSED LOOPS; COOPERATIVE STRATEGIES; COST STRUCTURES; INVENTORY POOLING; MAINTENANCE PROCESS; REPAIRABLE SPARE PARTS; SIMULATION MODELS; TOTAL EFFICIENCIES;

AIRCRAFT MANUFACTURE;

EID: 59049093823     PISSN: 09255273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2008.12.001     Document Type: Article

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