This paper presents the effects of a free minimal repair warranty (FMRW) on the periodic replacement policy under discrete operating circumstance. For the discrete-time periodic replacement policy, a product is preventively replaced at pre-specified operation cycles N, 2N, 3N, … (N = 1, 2,...

This paper presents the effects of a free-repair warranty on a periodic replacement policy with a discrete time process. Considering a repairable product that should be operational at the time over an indefinitely long operation cycle n (n=1, 2, …), under the discrete-time periodic replacement...

A system is subject to shocks that arrive according to a non-homogeneous pure birth process. As shocks occur, the system has two types of failures. Type-I failure (minor failure) is removed by a general repair, whereas type-II failure (catastrophic failure) is removed by an unplanned...

This paper focuses on an age-replacement policy for products under a new warranty strategy, which combines a fully renewable free replacement with a pro-rata warranty policy (called fully renewable FRW/PRW policy). For this combined warranty strategy, whenever a product fails within the warranty...