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An imperfect repair strategy for two-dimensional warranty

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The objective of this study is to develop a warranty servicing strategy, based on imperfect and minimal repairs, that minimises the total warranty servicing cost. For pre-specified degrees of repair, the expected warranty servicing cost is minimised by optimally partitioning a two-dimensional rectangular warranty region into n disjoint subregions. We numerically illustrate the imperfect repair strategy and provide a comparison with previously studied warranty repair strategies.

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  1. Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

    S Varnosafaderani & S Chukova

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Varnosafaderani, S., Chukova, S. An imperfect repair strategy for two-dimensional warranty. J Oper Res Soc 63, 846–859 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1057/jors.2011.66

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