Wei Huang: Managing Warranty Services: Pricing, Inventory and Outsourcing (Under the direction of Jayashankar Swaminathan, Vidyadhar Kulkarni) Managing warranty services plays a very important role in today’s business environment. This thesis concentrates on three specific areas related to warranty: joint control of new and warranty parts inventory, outsourcing of repair services, coordinated p...

Warranty claims and supplementary data contain useful information about product quality and reliability. Analysing such data can therefore be of benefit to manufacturers in identifying early warnings of abnormalities in their products, providing useful information about failure modes to aid design modification, estimating product reliability for deciding on warranty policy and forecasting futur...

Modelling of deteriorating systems with preventive repair during warranty using geometric processes was carried out in the previous chapter. In this chapter the independent and identically distributed assumption of geometric processes is relaxed to assume only the independent successive inter arrival times. Surveying the literature, one is struck by the fact that there has been so little resear...

In this study, we deal with a model to study the effect of PM carried out by both parties on a repairable product sold under a non-renewing, free-repaired warranty policy. During the warranty period, the seller will repair the deteriorated but repairable product and charges no fee to the buyer. After the warranty period, the deteriorated product is also repaired by the seller but the buyer will...

introduction: food industry is one of the most important industries in developing countries that has an enormous role in employment, export and value added of the agricultural sector. iran as a developing country has a comparative advantage in food product industries for several reasons such as adequate and cheap raw materials and having several companies in the field of food industries. the fo...