Cooperative strategies for the availability service of repairable aircraft components

Jani Kilpi, Juuso Töyli and Ari Vepsäläinen

International Journal of Production Economics, 2009, vol. 117, issue 2, 360-370

Abstract: This paper specifies cooperative strategies for the availability service of repairable aircraft components and finds out which factors contribute to the emergence of a particular cooperative strategy. The strategies ad hoc cooperation, cooperative pooling and commercial pooling were specified and compared to the alternative of acting alone, i.e. solo strategy. A simulation model based on fair assumptions of the cost structure was constructed and the cooperative strategies were tested in a game theoretic setting both from the viewpoint of total efficiency and from the perspective of each participant. Despite the explicit focus on aircraft components, the findings should be relevant to any industry using a closed-loop maintenance process with repairable spare parts.

Keywords: Inventory; pooling; Repairable; spare; parts; Aircraft; maintenance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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