Evaluation of time-varying availability in multi-echelon spare parts systems with passivation

• Main Authors: LAU, Hoong Chuin, SONG, Huawei, SEE, Chuen Teck, CHENG, Siew Yen
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2006
• Subjects: Inventory; Maintenance; Multi-echelon; Passivation; Artificial Intelligence and Robotics; Operations Research, Systems Engineering and Industrial Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/1096; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/2095/viewcontent/PassivationEJOR.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The popular models for repairable item inventory, both in the literature as well as practical applications, assume that the demands for items are independent of the number of working systems. However this assumption can introduce a serious underestimation of availability when the number of working s...