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A Preventive Replacement Policy for Units Subject to Intermittent Demand

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  • Menachem Berg

    (University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel)

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We propose a preventive replacement policy for a unit that is in demand only part of the time and is inactive otherwise. Under this policy, called a modified age replacement policy, the unit is replaced preventively at the first no-demand period at which its operational age exceeds some control limit. We use a marginal cost analysis to find the optimal control limit that minimizes the limiting conditional probability that the unit is down when it is demanded. We then compare the optimal limiting conditional probability that the unit is down when it is demanded for the modified age replacement policy and the age replacement policy.

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  • Menachem Berg, 1984. "A Preventive Replacement Policy for Units Subject to Intermittent Demand," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 32(3), pages 584-595, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:oropre:v:32:y:1984:i:3:p:584-595
    DOI: 10.1287/opre.32.3.584
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    1. Meller, Russell D. & Kim, David S., 1996. "The impact of preventive maintenance on system cost and buffer size," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 95(3), pages 577-591, December.
    2. Hatch, Melanie L. & Badinelli, Ralph D., 1999. "Concurrent optimization in designing for logistics support," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 115(1), pages 77-97, May.
    3. Van der Duyn Schouten, F. A. & Vanneste, S. G., 1995. "Maintenance optimization of a production system with buffer capacity," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 82(2), pages 323-338, April.
    4. Berg, Menachem P., 1995. "The marginal cost analysis and its application to repair and replacement policies," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 82(2), pages 214-224, April.
    5. Ciriaco Valdez‐Flores & Richard M. Feldman, 1989. "A survey of preventive maintenance models for stochastically deteriorating single‐unit systems," Naval Research Logistics (NRL), John Wiley & Sons, vol. 36(4), pages 419-446, August.

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