| Article ID: | iaor19941329 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 30/31 |
| Start Page Number: | 543 |
| End Page Number: | 550 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 1993 |
| Journal: | International Journal of Production Economics |
| Authors: | Proth J.M., Hamann Thomas |
| Keywords: | maintenance, repair & replacement |
This paper is devoted to the management of repairable tools in the case where only global information (such as the number of tools repaired and bought per year) is available. The authors present the process which has been used in an industrial contract to provide the service rate related to a given inventory level. Several numerical examples illustrate the approach.