In this study, by integrating preventive maintenance (PM) into a two-dimensional warranty region, with customized PM (2D PM) is proposed from the manufacturer’s perspective to reduce cost. The cost of 2D derived. tradeoff between and minimal repair saving obtained choosing proper reliability threshold number PMs, advantage illustrated. Second, post-warranty period, bivariate (BPWM) policy consu...

The University Pharmacy Program (FU), from the Federal of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), was created based on need to offer a curricular internship students Undergraduate Course at Faculty Pharmacy. Currently, it is responsible for care about 200 patients/day, offering vacancies internships in course, has become reference manipulation many drugs neglected by pharmaceutical industry and provides access ...

Warranty is a powerful marketing tool for the manufacturer and a good protection for both the manufacturer and the customer. However, warranty always involves additional costs to the manufacturer, which depend on product reliability characteristics and warranty parameters. This paper presents an approach to optimisation of warranty parameters for known product failure distribution to reduce the...

An effective warranty servicing strategy should be made considering both warranty cost and product availability. Based on the two-dimensional free repair warranty, a strategy combining the imperfect preventive maintenance and minimal repair is proposed where the imperfect preventive maintenances are implemented in a special subregion of the warranty and all other failures are repaired minimally...

This paper presents a warranty forecasting method based on stochastic simulation of expected product warranty returns. This methodology is presented in the context of a high-volume product industry and has a specific application to automotive electronics. The warranty prediction model is based on a piecewise application of Weibull and exponential distributions, having three parameters, which ar...

A warranty policy for a product should balance the interests of both producer and consumer. Consumer protection is typically provided by a guarantee of replacement or some form of repair of the product failing within a promised warranty period, while an approach to provide a corresponding protection for the manufacturer is to limit the maximum usage allowed under warranty. Such warranty policie...

We present the outline of a class project in which entry-level students in our CS1 course spent a full day developing a text-based massively multi-player online role-playing game (MMORPG) using Scheme. We describe briefly our CS1 course, the specifics of the game we asked students to implement, and the project organization. Comments from the students about their experience are also presented. M...