A Preventive Replacement Policy for Units Subject to Intermittent Demand
Menachem Berg
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Menachem Berg: University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
Operations Research, 1984, vol. 32, issue 3, 584-595
Abstract:
We propose a preventive replacement policy for a unit that is in demand only part of the time and is inactive otherwise. Under this policy, called a modified age replacement policy, the unit is replaced preventively at the first no-demand period at which its operational age exceeds some control limit. We use a marginal cost analysis to find the optimal control limit that minimizes the limiting conditional probability that the unit is down when it is demanded. We then compare the optimal limiting conditional probability that the unit is down when it is demanded for the modified age replacement policy and the age replacement policy.
Keywords: 722 availability on intermittent demand; 730 a preventive replacement policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1984
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