Optimizing two-dimensional renewable warranty policies for sensor embedded remanufactured products

Money-back guarantee warranty policy with preventive maintenance strategy for sensor-embedded remanufactured products

In today’s global environment, technology is constantly evolving. Being able to stay up-to-date with the very latest technological advances can be extremely hard to accomplish. As a result of these changes and developments in technology, which often come unexpectedly, consumers are frequently tempted to update their devices to the very latest model. The result is that the life cycle of a produc...

Warranty Period and Product Price Optimization for Remanufactured Products

Maintenance policies with two-dimensional warranty

A new maintenance policy which minimizes the total expected servicing cost for an item with two–dimensional warranty is proposed. An iterative procedure to estimate the item’s failure rate function from historical observations and an optimization algorithm based on Monte Carlo simulation are applied to obtain the best maintenance policy. Numerical examples and sensitivity analysis are presented.

Bayesian approaches for optimizing warranty length of products

‎Today's manufacturers face increasingly intense competition and to remain profitable they needed to design‎, ‎develop and produce high reliable products‎. ‎One way by which manufacturers attract consumers to their products is by providing warranties on the products‎. ‎Consumers are willing to purchase a longer warranty period product‎. ‎While maintaining such a policy needs very high cost for ...

Repair-Replace Strategies for Two-Dimensional Warranty Policies

For repairable items sold with free replacement warranty, the actions available to the manufacturer to rectify failures under warranty are to (1) repair the failed item or (2) replace it with a new one. A proper repair-replace strategy can reduce the expected cost of servicing the warranty. In this paper, we study repair-replace strategies for items sold with a two-dimensional free replacement ...