A diagnostics design decision model for products under warranty

Zhi Jie Liu, Hong Zhong Huang*, Wei Chen, Bo Yang

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Warranty obligations in product service involve additional costs to the manufacturers. Building diagnostic features into a product can reduce the warranty costs because of; 1) fewer visits needed by warranty service representatives (through self-guided user repairs for simple problems) and 2) shorter service times (via reduced diagnostic time) for each failure. However, this approach increases the cost of the product and is worthwhile only if the reduction in the expected warranty cost is more than the additional costs incurred. This paper develops models to evaluate diagnostic design decisions for products under warranty from the manufacturer's point of view. The roles and influence of the key parameters and decision variables based upon the consideration of uncertainty are explored. Numerical examples are given to illustrate the proposed models.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2007 Proceedings - Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, RAMS
Pages28-33
Number of pages6
DOIs
StatePublished - 2007
Event2007 53rd Annual Reliability and Maintainability Sympsoium, RAMS - Orlando, FL, United States
Duration: Jan 22 2006Jan 25 2006

Publication series

Name2007 Proceedings - Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, RAMS
ISSN (Print)0149-144X

Other

Other2007 53rd Annual Reliability and Maintainability Sympsoium, RAMS
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityOrlando, FL
Period1/22/061/25/06

Keywords

  • Diagnostics design
  • Product design
  • Uncertainty analysis
  • Warranty

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Engineering(all)

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