In this study, a new warranty service strategy is proposed and analyzed. This strategy adds the renewing free-replacement warranty to a non-repairable product sold under the rebate warranty policy. According to the renewing free-replacement warranty, the seller (manufacturer) is responsible for replacing all failed product during the warranty period, and the warranty begins anew with each repla...

Hardware trends in the personal computing industry adversely impact the sale of extended warranties. Steep declines in PC prices, including the introduction of new low-priced hardware categories like netbooks, make replacing one's PC an increasingly viable alternative to paying for repairs or buying an extended warranty. Frequent improvements in PC functionality further tilt the scales in favor...

The working cycle of the products can be supervised by sensors and other measuring technologies. This fact means that supervising cycle, manufacturer devise a warranty policy, continuing to supervise post-warranty consumer model maintenance. However, in literature, there is no associated work. Integrating renewing free-replacement (RFRW) number cycles, this paper proposes two-dimensional which ...

There is an ever-increasing stringent directive for environmental protection, even the previously rather negligible lubricant leakage from vehicular drivetrains. Leakage transmissions and differential units are no longer permitted can lead to excessive warranty costs. Additionally, trend in component downsizing, including sealing systems has indirectly altered behaviour of transmissions. To gua...

HORTSCIENCE, VOL. 35(6), OCTOBER 2000 Received for publication 7 Sept. 1999. Accepted for publication 4 Jan. 2000. Mention of a trademark or proprietary product is for identification only and does not imply a guarantee or warranty of the product by the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. All programs and services of the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture are offered on a nondiscriminatory basis without regard to...

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Employing remanufactured and refurbished products are among the new strategies that companies used to raise their profits as well as protects environment. Although used product equipment gives an opportunity to purchase latest technology, customers are doubtful about quality and reliability of these products. Because of limitation that developing countries faces in buying new products, some cou...

In general, a newly purchased item or system is warranted for a specific period. When the system fails during the warranty period, it is repaired free of charge. Even if the system is repairable, there exists some warranty services under which the manufacturer replaces the failed system during the warranty period. This study considers a case where a manufacturer offers an additional warranty se...