...Lijun Shang; Qingan Qiu; Cang Wu; Yongjun Du Purpose The study aims to design the limited number of random working cycle as a warranty term and propose two types of warranties, which can help manufacturers to ensure the product reliability during the warranty period. By extending the proposed...

.... The author builds a simulation function of the two-stage preventative maintenance behavior relations. The study used simulations to analyze the influencing relationship and differences between three preventive maintenance behavior elements to basic warranty preventive maintenance (BWPM) behavior and extended...

...Mohamed N. Darghouth; Anis Chelbi Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a decision model for second-hand products to determine the optimal upgrade level, warranty period and preventive maintenance (PM) effort level which maximize the total expected profit generated by the dealer...