Along with increasing the warranty period for complex systems, reducing the warranty
servicing costs has become an issue of great importance to the manufacturers. One possible …

This study proposes a customized two-dimensional extended warranty policy, in which
customers are classified into three categories with different operating conditions according …

Lessors are responsible for equipment maintenance during the lease period. The usage rate
of these equipment affects their failures, reliability and decision-making on maintenance …

In this paper, we consider a periodic preventive maintenance model, from the manufacturer's
perspective, which can be implemented to reduce the maintenance cost of a repairable …

This article considers the determination of the optimal burn-in time, the degree of preventive
maintenance, and the preventive maintenance interval (or, equivalently, the number of …

This study presents the reliability assessment of two unit active parallel systems connected
to an external supporting device for its operation. The system is under two types of …

This paper deals with the reliability modelling and evaluation of a linear consecutive 2-out-of-
4 system under online and offline preventive maintenance. The failure and repair time are …

ABSTRACT A three-stage failure process divides a product's life into three stages: normal,
minor defective and severe defective stages. Under the condition-based renewable warranty …

For large equipment, we present a new warranty policy wherein the buyer invests in the
preventive maintenance (PM) cost within the product's life cycle to reduce the losses from …

This paper considers the integration of production scheduling and preventive maintenance
(PM) scheduling on a single machine that is subject to random failures. PM that restores the …