Timing replacement decisions under discontinuous technological change

Wallace J. Hopp and Suresh K. Nair

Naval Research Logistics (NRL), 1991, vol. 38, issue 2, 203-220

Abstract: We consider the problem of deciding whether to keep a piece of equipment or replace it with a more advanced technology in an environment of technological change. Our model assumes that the costs associated with the presently available technology and future technologies are known, but that the appearance times of future technologies are uncertain. We develop a procedure for computing the optimal keep‐or‐replace decision that iteratively incorporates a technological forecast. For a certain class of situations, we show that our approach requires the minimum possible amount of forecasted data.

Date: 1991
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