Preventive maintenance strategy optimizing model under two-dimensional warranty policy

An effective warranty servicing strategy should be made considering both warranty cost and product availability. Based on the two-dimensional free repair warranty, a strategy combining the imperfect preventive maintenance and minimal repair is proposed where the imperfect preventive maintenances are implemented in a special subregion of the warranty and all other failures are repaired minimally. By modeling the warranty cost and product availability, we derive the optimum warranty servicing strategy and corresponding parameters to minimize the cost-effective of unit time. Finally, we provide a numerical illustration and a comparison with some other strategies.