• 산업경영시스템학회지
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• 제10권15호
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• pp.23-32
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• 1987

This paper proposes a stepdown warranty policy: the warranty period consists of subintervals where the manufacturer's compensation is constant for warranty failures and decreases with the subinterval's number. Manufacturer's unit warranty cost is analyzed for both irrepairable and repairable products. we assume that only minimal repairs are performed for repairable items. Comparison with the free replacement polity indicates that the proposed policy has a longer warranty period if tile warranty reserves are the same and that manufacturer`s unit warranty cost is smaller if the warranty periods are tile same. Some numerical examples are also given.

• 대한안전경영과학회지
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.135-143
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• 1999

This paper discusses an optimal burn-in procedure to minimize total costs based on the assumption that the failure rate pattern follows a bimodal mixed Weibull distribution. The procedure will consider warranty period as a factor of the total expected bum-in cost. A cost model is formulated to find the optimal burn-in time that minimizes the expected burn-in cost. Conditional reliability for warranty period will be discussed. An illustrative example is included to show how to use the cost model in practice.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• 제23권6호
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• pp.1195-1202
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 최소수리의 비용이 시스템의 수명시간에 의존하는 경우에 연장된 보증이 주어진 수리가 가능한 시스템에 대하여 사용자 측면에서의 총기대비용을 구하였다. 이를 위해서 연장된 보증을 정의하고 사용자 측면에서 연장된 보증이 종료된 이후의 교체모형을 가정하였다. 특히, 시스템의 교체모형에서 사용자가 연장된 보증을 선택하기 위한 기준을 제시하였으며, 시스템의 고장시간이 와이블 분포를 따를 때 수치적 예를 통하여 이를 설명하였다.

• 대한산업공학회지
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.87-91
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• 1989

A warranty is a contractual obligation incurred by a producer in connection with the sale of a product. The warranty specifies that producer agrees to remedy certain failures in the product sold. There have been many articles dealing with warranties, but they have studied about optimal warranty cost for the warranty period. In this study, an optimal preventive maintenance time interval is computed. The optimal preventive maintenance time interval minimizing warranty cost for the warranty period is discussed. It is assumed that failure rate is increasing and the failure rate after preventive maintenance or corrective maintenance lies between good as new and bad as old.

• 대한산업공학회지
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.11-18
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• 1985

Three types of warranty policies are considered. They are (1) free warranty policy for repairable products, (2) free warranty policy for nonrepairable products, and (3) rebate warranty policy. Under each warranty policy, a single sampling attribute plan with non-destructive testing is considered. A sampling plan is characterized by the sample size and the acceptance number. For each case, characteristics of an optimum sampling plan are discussed and determined, which minimize the warranty cost and the corresponding quality control cost within the assigned producer's risk and consumer's risk.

• International Journal of Reliability and Applications
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.51-64
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• 2014

This paper develops a warranty cost model for complex systems with imperfect repair within a warranty period by addressing a practical case that the first inter-failure interval is longer than any other inter-failure intervals. The product is in its best condition before the first failure if repair is imperfect. After the imperfect repair, other inter-failure intervals which are explained by renewal processes, are stochastically smaller than the first inter-failure interval. Based on this idea, we suggest the failure-interval-failure-criterion model. In this model, we consider two random variables, X and Y where X represents failure intervals and Y represents failure criterion. We also obtain the distribution of the number of failures and conduct the warranty cost analysis. We investigate different types of warranty cost models, reliabilities and other measures for various systems including series-parallel configurations. Several numerical examples are discussed to demonstrate the applicability of the methodologies derived in the paper.

• International Journal of Reliability and Applications
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.41-54
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• 2013

In this paper, cost analysis is conducted using inter-failure interval under renewable warranty subject to imperfect repair for multi-component system. One way to model the imperfect repair is to use the quasi-renewal process (Wang and Pham 1996). Two alternative quasi-renewal processes were suggested by Park and Pham (2010) using quasi-renewal process; first is an altered quasi-renewal process with random variable parameter and second is a mixed quasi-renewal process considering replacement service and repair service, simultaneously. In this study, we use the altered and mixed quasi-renewal processes and develop the warranty cost model to obtain the expected value of warranty cost and to help company make important decisions regarding the warranty policy. Numerical examples are used to demonstrate the applicability of the methodology derived in the paper.

• 산업경영시스템학회지
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• 제24권62호
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• pp.1-10
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• 2001

The electronics industry is fast growing segment of manufacturing and service industries. It is important that the manufacturer develops a product with adequate life cycle, high quality, and low failure rate in the specified time period. Environmental Stress Screening(ESS) and burn-in are widely used in the electronic industry to assist in the elimination of early failure. In this research, we construct optimal cost model of combined ESS and burn-in under various warranty policy and establish optimal testing times for given environments. Also we conduct sensitivity analysis on various parameter. The results of this study are summarized as follows. Comparing free warranty policy to rebate warranty policy, optimal ESS time is longer under free warranty policy, and optimal burn-in time is longer under rebate warranty policy. Free warranty policy higher than rebate warranty policy in total cost.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.865-877
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 보증기간이 종료된 이후의 수리가 가능한 시스템에 대한 주기적인 예방보전모형을 고려하는데, 무료수리보증, 비례수리보증 그리고 혼합수리보증과 같은 세 종류의 수리보증정책을 고려한다. 이러한 세 종류의 수리보증기간이 종료된 이후의 수리가 가능한 시스템에 대한 주기적인 예방보전모형에 대하여 각각 기대순환길이, 총기대비용 그리고 단위시간당 기대비용을 유도한다. 또한 유도된 단위시간당 기대 비용을 최소화하는 최적의 예방보전정책인 최적의 예방보전주기와 예방보전횟수를 결정하는 방법에 대하여 설명한다. 끝으로 고장시간이 와이블분포를 하는 경우에 최적의 주기적 예방보전정책을 결정하여 본다.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.367-377
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• 2006

This paper develops a periodic preventive maintenance(PM) policy following the expiration of warranty. Two types of warranty are considered: renewing warranty and non-renewing warranty. Also, we consider the situation where each PM cost is an increasing function of the PM effect. We determine the optimal number of PM's before replacing the system by a new one and the optimal length of period for the periodic PM following the expiration of warranty. Explicit solutions to determine the optimal periodic PM are presented for the Weibull distribution case.