Altered quasi-renewal concepts for modeling renewable warranty costs with imperfect repairs

Mathematical and Computer Modelling

Volumn 52, Issue 9-10, 2010, Pages 1435-1450

  Park, Minjae ^a   Pham, Hoang ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING   (United States)

Author keywords

Imperfect repair; Multi component system; Quasi renewal processes; Replacement; System reliability; Warranty cost

Indexed keywords

IMPERFECT REPAIR; MULTI-COMPONENT SYSTEMS; QUASI-RENEWAL PROCESS; REPLACEMENT; SYSTEM RELIABILITY; WARRANTY COSTS;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COSTS; RELIABILITY;

REPAIR;

EID: 77956010114     PISSN: 08957177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mcm.2010.05.028     Document Type: Article

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