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MANUFACTURING QUALITY, RELIABILITY AND PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE
Author(s) -
Sahin Izzet,
Polatoglu Hakan
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
production and operations management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.279
H-Index - 110
eISSN - 1937-5956
pISSN - 1059-1478
DOI - 10.1111/j.1937-5956.1996.tb00390.x
Subject(s) - preventive maintenance , quality (philosophy) , reliability (semiconductor) , product (mathematics) , computer science , production (economics) , quality costs , reliability engineering , operations management , planned maintenance , risk analysis (engineering) , business , engineering , cost control , economics , philosophy , power (physics) , physics , geometry , mathematics , epistemology , quantum mechanics , macroeconomics
We consider an important topic from the traditional quality literature‐the impact of conformance quality of a manufactured product on the preventive maintenance costs to downstream users of this product. Folk wisdom supports the notion that higher conformance quality translates into lower maintenance costs (as well as other components of life‐cycle costs) for these users. We examine this proposition in some detail on the basis of a failure‐time model that relates conformance quality to reliability. We consider both repairable and nonrepairable items that are maintained by a block‐replacement or a minimal‐repair strategy. In addition to maintenance cycles and costs, we discuss the value of information to the user as to the actual production quality, and the value of inspection.