Article ID: | iaor199456 |
Country: | United States |
Volume: | 40 |
Issue: | 5 |
Start Page Number: | 593 |
End Page Number: | 602 |
Publication Date: | Aug 1993 |
Journal: | Naval Research Logistics |
Authors: | Hausman Warren H., Cheung Ki Ling |
Keywords: | quality & reliability |
This article presents a recoverable spares model for performance evaluation in a multiechelon inventory environment. This model explicitly incorporates the phenomenon known as multiple failures, in which more than one part can require replacement or repair when an end-item reaches a maintenance base. The model is shown to be computationally intractable, and an approximation scheme is presented to estimate system performance.