International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management: Volume 22 Issue 7

Optimal burn‐in time for general repairable products sold under failure‐free renewing warranty

Yu‐Hung Chien

To investigate the optimal burn‐in time from the perspective of minimizing the expected total cost (i.e. manufacturing plus warranty costs) per unit of product sold under a…

Analysis of warranty claim data: a literature review

Rezaul Karim, Kazuyuki Suzuki

To provide a brief survey of the literature directed towards the analysis of warranty claim data.

Warranty cost analysis: quasi‐renewal inter‐repair times

Stefanka Chukova, Yu Hayakawa

To provide a brief introduction to warranty analysis and a classification of general repairs. To introduce the notion of accelerated probability distribution and use it to model…

Outsourcing prioritized warranty repairs

Peter S. Buczkowski, Mark E. Hartmann, Vidyadhar G. Kulkarni

To consider the problem of outsourcing warranty repairs to outside vendors when items have priorities in service.

Determining the optimal software warranty period under various operational circumstances

Koichiro Rinsaka, Tadashi Dohi

To determine the optimal software warranty period in continuous and discrete circumstances where the difference between the software testing environment and the operational…

Comparison between two scale‐inspection and warranty policies for weight‐quality

Hiroaki Sandoh, Takeshi Koide

To make a theoretical comparison between two scale‐inspection and warranty policies for weight‐quality, one practical and the other theoretically grounded.