• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.25-36
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• 1994

통신 시스템의 확실한 연속 서비스 목표를 만족시키기 위한 최적의 spare part 수준을 결정하는 데에는 고장률과 spare part의 인도기간이 크게 기여한다. 따라서 본고는 관련 비용인자와 함께 통신시스템의 최적 spare part 수준결정모델의 결정에 관해 중점을 두고 서술하였다. 이 모델은 통신시스템을 구성하는 plug-in PBA의 spare 수준을 결정하는데 유용하게 적용될 것이며 또한 연도별 시설 공급계획에 의거 운용보전국(OMC) 단위로 적용할 때 특히 유용할 것이다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.938-946
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• 2005

We study the firm's strategy to price its products and plan the spare parts manufacturing so as to maximize its profit and at the same time to fulfill its commitment to providing the customers with the key parts continuously over the relevant decision time horizon, i.e., the production plus warrantee period. To examine the research question, we developed and solved a two-stage optimal control theory model. Our analysis suggests that if the cost to produce the spare part during the warrantee period is more expensive than that during the production period, the firm should increase its sales price gradually throughout the production period to control its sales. In addition, during the production period it is optimal for the firm to produce the spare parts more than needed so that the overproduced spare parts can be used to partially meet the demand during the warrantee period. We conducted numerical analysis to investigate the sensitivity dynamics among key variables and parameters such as inventory holding cost, unit spare part production costs, part failure rate, and parameters in the demand function.

• Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.9-17
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• 1990

This paper deals with a FOQ( ; fixed-order quantity) model for spare-part inventory control. In a spare-part inventory problem, stock depletion arises not from external market demand but from internal demand resulting from failures of parts in use. The problem differs from the classical inventory problem in that the demand for a failed part never arises more during stockout period, since the unit remains inoperative when stockout occurs until the failed part is replaced by new one. In the problem under consideration, n identical units are operating simultaneously and failed one is replaced immediately by new one if on-hand spares remain. In order to replenish spares, an order with quantity Q is placed whenever the number of on-hand spares falls to levels. The average annual cost of operating the spare-part inventory system is derived under the assumption that both lifetime of a part and replenishment lead-time distributions are exponential.

• Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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• v.24 no.69
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• pp.1-12
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• 2001

In this paper, the consumable concurred spare parts requirement determination problem of newly procured equipment systems is considered. The problem is formulated as the operational availability maximization problem with any given fund limitation. the that the failure of a part follows a Poisson process and part failure rate is constant in spite of the decrease of number of equipments during operational period, an analytical method is developed to obtain spare part requirements using the generalized Lagrange multipliers method, The numerical examples show that analytic solution is mostly equal to the realistic solution obtained from simulation regardless of assumptions about part failure rate. It is expected that the analytical method developed in the paper can be effectively used to make a budget for provisioning the concurrent spare parts of newly procured equipment system.

• Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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• v.36 no.2
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• pp.9-19
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• 2008

Spare part problem of MIME (Multi Indenture Multi Echelon) system under availability constraint has been studied for several decades. In most of existing studies, it was very difficult to obtain the optimal numbers of spare parts and some approximate methods were proposed under many restrictions. In this paper, we consider a simulation to estimate the total cost rate and system availability and a genetic algorithm to obtain the optimal numbers of spare parts. Some numerical examples are also studied.

• Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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• v.36 no.3
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• pp.164-175
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• 2010

In this study, we developed a genetic algorithm to find a near optimal solution of concurrent spare parts selection for the operational time period with limited information of weapon systems purchased from overseas. Through the analysis of time profiles related with system operations, we first define the optimization goal which maintains the expected system operating rate under the budget restrictions, and the number of failures and the lead time for each spare part are used to calculate the estimated total down time of the system. The genetic algorithm for CSP selection shows that the objective function minimizes the estimated total down time of systems with satisfying the restrictions. The method provided by this study can be applied to the generalized model of CSP selection for the systems purchased from overseas without provision of their full structure and adequate information.

• Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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• v.38 no.1
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• pp.110-117
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• 2015

Spare part management is very important to products that have large number of parts and long lifecycle such as automobile and aircraft. Supply chain must support immediate procurement for repair. However, it is not easy to handle spare parts efficiently due to huge stock keeping units. Qualified forecasting is the basis for the supply chain to achieve the goal. In this paper, we propose an agent based modeling approach that can deal with various factors simultaneously without mathematical modeling. Simulation results show that the proposed method is reasonable to describe demand generation process, and consequently, to forecast demand of spare parts in long-term perspective.

• Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.41-45
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• 2013

Age replacement policy is a commonly policy in maintenance management of spare part. It means that a spare part is always replaced at failure or fixed time after its installation, whichever occurs first. An optimal age replacement policy of spare parts concerns with finding the optimal replacement time determined by minimizing the expected cost per unit time. The age of the part was generally assumed to be a random variable in the past literatures, but in many situations, there are few or even no observed data to estimate the probability distribution of part's lifetime. In order to solve this phenomenon, a new uncertain age replacement policy has been proposed recently, in which the age of the part was assumed to be an uncertain variable. This paper discusses the optimal age replacement policies by dealing with the parts' lifetimes as different distributed uncertain variables. Several results on the optimal age replacement time are provided when the lifetimes are described by the uncertain linear, zigzag and lognormal distributions.

• Journal of the military operations research society of Korea
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.31-35
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• 1982

Recently, Park [1] proposed an algorithm for the optimum spare-part stock level in an (S-1, S) inventory system for small fleet. This paper reports validative GPSS simulation results and numerical experiences with the algorithm.

• Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.13-20
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• 1981

Three inspection-ordering policies of a part with three types of lead times, i. e., expedited lead time, special lead time and regular lead time are considered. Policy I : The original part is replaced by a spare immediately after delivery, even if the original part is still operating. Policy II : The delivered spare is put into inventory until the original part failes. Policy III : The original part is inspected once again immediately after the delivery of the spare. If it is in a good state, the original part is used up to its mean degradation time, then replaced. If it is in a degradation state, the original part is replaced by a spare. A cost effectiveness for each policy is analyzed. Optimal inspection-ordering policy which maximizes a cost effectiveness is obtained. Time to degradation distribution and time to failure distribution are assumed to be Weibull and exponential, respectively. Variations of policies are observed with respect to variations of associated costs.