Product reliability and warranty period as a cost-forming factors

Minimizing life cycle cost by managing product reliability via validation plan and warranty return cost

This paper presents a quantitative solution that minimizes the life cycle cost of a product by developing an optimal product validation plan. Dependability constitutes an integral view of a product’s reliability, availability, maintainability, quality, and safety. The methodology developed in this paper incorporates several dependability-related activities into a comprehensive probabilistic cos...

Warranty Period and Product Price Optimization for Remanufactured Products

Determining Optimal Reliability Targets through Analysis of Product Validation Cost and Field Warranty Data

Title of dissertation: DETERMINING OPTIMAL RELIABILITY TARGETS THROUGH ANALYSIS OF PRODUCT VALIDATION COST AND FIELD WARRANTY DATA Andre V. Kleyner, Doctor of Philosophy, 2005 Dissertation directed by: Professor Peter Sandborn, Mechanical Engineering Department This work develops a new methodology to minimize the life cycle cost of a product using the decision variables controlled by a reliabil...

Bayesian Maintenance Policies during a Warranty Period

Most of the brand new items are released on the market with a certain type of warranty. A xed length warranty period is assumed in this paper. A maintenance policy which consists of minimal repair and preventive maintenance is analyzed for the case of known and unknown failure parameters of the item's lifetime distribution. For the second case, two types of Bayesian policies are considered. An ...

Repairable Product Warranty and Preventive Maintenance Policy

This paper considers four options of warranty and preventive maintenance policy. The product is repairable and sold with a non-renewing free warranty policy. For products sold with warranty, preventive maintenance (PM) actions by manufacturers and/or buyers have an impact on the total costs for both parties. In this study, we deal with a model to study the effect of PM that carried out by the m...