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 …

The warranty policies for capital-intensive products, such as automobiles, heavy equipment,
and aircraft engines, typically have two dimensions, that is, the age and usage. During the …

In practice, customers can decide whether to buy an extended warranty or not, at the time of
item sale or at the end of the basic warranty. In this paper, by taking into account the …

This study uses a bivariate approach, which simultaneously considers the time and usage of
a repairable product, and takes into account periodic preventive maintenance to develop a …

When a repairable item fails under warranty, the manufacturer has the option of either
repairing the failed item or replacing it with a new one. In this paper, a repair–replace …

For repairable items under the two-dimensional warranty, the manufacturer expenses
warranty costs for rectifying the failures occurring over the warranty coverage. Preventive …

This paper considers an optimal periodic preventive maintenance policy after the expiration
of two-dimensional warranty. During the two-dimensional warranty period, both renewal …

In this paper, we discuss two‐dimensional failure modeling for a system where degradation
is due to age and usage. We extend the concept of minimal repair for the one‐dimensional …

For vehicles sold under a two-dimensional warranty, which consists of two-dimensional
region of age and usage, automobile manufacturers or third-party after-sales departments …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate to what extent a consumer's repair
strategy impacts the annual costs of ownership of a washing machine and two types of …