{"product_id":"9780792382928","title":"International Series in Operations Research \u0026 Management Science","description":"\u003ch1\u003eInternational Series in Operations Research \u0026amp; Management Science\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eSahin, Izzet; Polatoglu, Hakan\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eQuality, Warranty and Preventive Maintenance\u003c\/em\u003e examines the  impact of product quality on warranty and maintenance costs and  strategies, from the perspectives of both manufacturers and users. In  addition, the theories of warranty and preventive maintenance are  introduced and discussed. Common wisdom supports the notion that  better product quality means lower warranty costs for the  manufacturer, and lower maintenance costs for the users of a  manufactured product. This proposition is examined in some detail on  the basis of failure time models. The authors investigate what exactly  better quality means in warranty and maintenance management, and how  it impacts warranty policies and costs for the manufacturer, and  replacement and maintenance strategies and costs for the users. In  measuring quality improvement, the main concepts and tools used are  those of stochastic ordering and mixture models. The theoretical base  of the work is a time-varying failure-rectification process. This  process includes, as special cases, replacement, minimal repair, and  imperfect repair, as alternative rectification modes that may be  available to the manufacturer or the user in warranty-servicing or  maintaining a product. In addition to serving as a unifying base for  the entire monograph, the use of this process enables one to  investigate jointly optimal repair-effort\/warranty-policy and  repair-effort\/maintenance-strategy configurations for repairable  units. \u003cbr\u003e  This book should be of interest to researchers in industry and  academia, and to quality, warranty and maintenance professionals,  specialists, and managers with a technical background. It is suitable  as a textbook to support graduate-level seminar courses in OR\/MS, IE  and business administration curricula.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Springer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 1998-09-30\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9780792382928\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-1-4615-5557-5\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 235cm x155cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 298\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer US","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45378467299468,"sku":"9780792382928","price":152.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9780792382928.jpg?v=1775004475","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9780792382928","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}