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Inspecting a Vital Component Needed upon Emergency

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  • Alireza Sabouri
  • Steven M. Shechter
  • Woonghee Tim Huh

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type="main" xml:id="poms12386-abs-0001"> We consider a stochastically failing component that will be needed at a random future time when an emergency occurs. If the component is not operational at that time, the system incurs a large penalty, which we want to avoid through inspections and replacements. We propose a model and solution algorithm for finding an inspection policy that minimizes the infinite horizon discounted expected penalty, replacement, and inspection costs. We also discuss structural properties of the solution, as well as insights based on numerical results.

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  • Alireza Sabouri & Steven M. Shechter & Woonghee Tim Huh, 2015. "Inspecting a Vital Component Needed upon Emergency," Production and Operations Management, Production and Operations Management Society, vol. 24(12), pages 1839-1851, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:popmgt:v:24:y:2015:i:12:p:1839-1851
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    1. Akcay, Alp, 2022. "An alert-assisted inspection policy for a production process with imperfect condition signals," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 298(2), pages 510-525.

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