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Impact of Performance-Based Contracting on Product Reliability: An Empirical Analysis
Guajardo, Jose A.; Cohen, Morris A.; Kim, Sang-Hyun; … - In: Management Science 58 (2012) 5, pp. 961-979
product reliability is impacted by the use of two different types of after-sales maintenance support contracts: time and … of incentives that establish why product reliability may increase or decrease under PBC. We build a two-stage econometric … effect of PBC on product reliability. The estimation of our model indicates that product reliability is higher by 25 …
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Reliability and Inventory in a Production-Storage System
Meyer, Robert R.; Rothkopf, Michael H.; Smith, Stephen A. - In: Management Science 25 (1979) 8, pp. 799-807
The reliability of a single stage production-storage system in meeting a constant known demand is analyzed. This system …
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(m,T) Group Maintenance Policies
Ritchken, Peter; Wilson, John G. - In: Management Science 36 (1990) 5, pp. 632-639
A model that recognizes the advantages of coordinated group maintenance planning is established. The maintenance policy that is investigated calls for group maintenance to be conducted at time T or upon m failures, whichever comes first. This policy combines the best features of the well-known...
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Transition Times: Distributions Arising from Time Heterogeneous Poisson Processes
Lenk, Peter J.; Rao, Ambar G. - In: Management Science 41 (1995) 7, pp. 1117-1129
The units of a heterogeneous population are subjected to shocks. A unit fails, or more generally, undergoes a change of state after a sufficient number of shocks. The shocks for a particular unit are assumed to arrive according to a time heterogeneous Poisson process. The time to a change of...
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A Dynamic Model for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Among U.S. Troops in Operation Iraqi Freedom
Atkinson, Michael P.; Guetz, Adam; Wein, Lawrence M. - In: Management Science 55 (2009) 9, pp. 1454-1468
We develop a dynamic model in which Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) servicemembers incur a random amount of combat stress during each month of deployment, develop posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) if their cumulative stress exceeds a servicemember-specific threshold, and then develop symptoms...
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An Algorithmic Solution to Two-Stage Transfer Lines with Possible Scrapping of Units
Shanthikumar, J. G.; Tien, C. C. - In: Management Science 29 (1983) 9, pp. 1069-1086
An important aspect of the efficient design of an automatic transfer line is the ability to understand and predict the effects of the system parameters such as the size of the intermediate buffer storage space, the cycle times, failure times, repair times, and scrap rate, on the production rate...
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Optimal Testing Procedures for Special Structures of Coherent Systems
Ben-Dov, Yosi - In: Management Science 27 (1981) 12, pp. 1410-1420
Consider the problem of minimizing the expected cost of identifying the state of a coherent system (as "functioning" or "failed"). The system is composed of components (that either fail or work), and only individual components can be tested. Efficient algorithms are presented for some special...
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Importance Sampling for the Simulation of Highly Reliable Markovian Systems
Shahabuddin, Perwez - In: Management Science 40 (1994) 3, pp. 333-352
In this paper we investigate importance sampling techniques for the simulation of Markovian systems with highly reliable components. The need for simulation arises because the state space of such systems is typically huge, making numerical computation inefficient. Naive simulation is inefficient...
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Measurement Errors in Probability Judgments
Ofir, Chezy; Reddy, Srinivas K. - In: Management Science 42 (1996) 9, pp. 1308-1325
-multimethod matrices are utilized to assess the reliability and method variance of the scales. The cumulative evidence suggests that rating …
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A Method for the Prescriptive Assessment of the Flow of Information Within Organizations
Delehanty, Thomas; Sullo, Pasquale; Wallace, William A. - In: Management Science 28 (1982) 8, pp. 910-924
location of special communicators or "gatekeepers." In this paper, the methods of system reliability are adapted to the … systematic analysis of information flow networks; in this context, system reliability is the probability of information flow … between the information source and the ultimate recipient, while arc reliability is the probability of information flow on …
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