Title : 
A Note on Age Replacement
         
        
            Author : 
Osaki, Shunji ; Nakagawa, Toshio
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Department of Industrial Engineering/Hiroshima University/Hiroshima 730, JAPAN
         
        
        
        
            fDate : 
4/1/1975 12:00:00 AM
         
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
This note discusses more explicitly an age replacement policy suggested by Barlow and Proschan and gives a few useful results. It shows that several different problems can be reduced to the typical age replacement problem, and gives numerical examples.
         
        
            Keywords : 
Cost function; Random variables; Reliability engineering; Sufficient conditions;
         
        
        
            Journal_Title : 
Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
         
        
        
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/TR.1975.5215347