Upgrading Strategy, Warranty Policy and Pricing Decisions for Remanufactured Products Sold with Two-Dimensional Warranty

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 Servicing with Imperfect Repair for Products Sold with a Two-Dimensional Warranty

In this paper, a new servicing strategy with imperfect repair is defined and studied for the manufacturer of a product sold with a two-dimensional warranty. The strategy is based on a specified region of the warranty defined in terms of age and usage, with the first failure in the region rectified by an imperfect repair and all other failures being minimally repaired. Product failures are model...

Last time buy decisions for products sold under warranty

Manufacturers supplying products under warranty need a strategy to deal with failures during the warranty period: repair the product or replace it by a new one, depending on e.g. age and/or usage of the failed product. An (implicit) assumption in virtually all models is that new products to replace the failed ones are immediately available at given replacement costs. Because of the short life c...

Warranty Period and Product Price Optimization for Remanufactured Products

Optimal production run length for products sold with warranty

The paper studies the optimal production run length for a deteriorating production system. The optimal warranty cost is determined by a balance between the warranty cost of the manufacturer and the buyer during its warranty period. It is assumed that the elapsed time until the production process shift is age dependent and arbitrarily distributed. The objective is to minimize the total cost per ...