Spare Parts And Maintenance Optimization In A Mobile Telephone Company

Angel Antonio Diaz ()
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Angel Antonio Diaz: Instituto de Empresa

Working Papers Economia from Instituto de Empresa, Area of Economic Environment

Abstract: (WP12/02 Clave pdf) Telecommunication companies depend on high availability of equipment to maintain service quality. In cellular communications electronic cards maintenance is basically reduced to exchanging parts as they fail. These parts are geographically dispersed in unmanned locations. Spares and maintenance policies are thus interrelated and tend to follow multiechelon configurations, following the architecture of the physical network. We describe the optimization of spare parts and maintenance policies performed by the Venezuelan mobile phone operator Movilnet.

Keywords: Mobile phone; MRO; Multi-echelon inventory systems; Spare parts optimization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 12 pages
Date: 2002-04
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