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Warranty Management and Product Manufacture
Murthy, D. N. Prabhakar; Blischke, Wallace
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Description for Warranty Management and Product Manufacture
Paperback. Series: Springer Series in Reliability Engineering. Num Pages: 320 pages, 24 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: KJMV5; TBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 454.
Purchasers of manufactured goods need assurance that they will perform well over their expected life. Warranties play a vital role in this. With proper management, warranty terms provide a promise of protection in case of product failure, while warranty service can assure customer satisfaction in the event of a claim.
The authors have developed "Stage-3" warranty management, viewing warranties from a strategic perspective, starting with a strategy linked to technical and commercial planning from the start of product development.
Warranty management aims to achieve business objectives by focusing on product performance assurance and customer satisfaction, the goal of ... Read morewarranty management; guidelines are provided for achieving this goal.
Written by leading experts, this book details current thinking in product manufacture. It will be a valuable guide for managers in product development, production and marketing as well as graduate students in business and operations management and industrial engineering.
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Publisher
Springer London Ltd United Kingdom
Series
Springer Series in Reliability Engineering
Place of Publication
England, United Kingdom
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About Murthy, D. N. Prabhakar; Blischke, Wallace
D. N. P. Murthy is the Professor of Engineering and Operations Management in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Queensland and a Senior Scientific Advisor to the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He has held visiting appointments at several universities in the USA, Europe and Asia. His current research interests include various aspects of technology management ... Read more(new product development, strategic management of technology), operations management (lot sizing, quality, reliability, maintenance), and post-sale support (warranties, service contracts). He has authored or co-authored 15 book chapters, 140 journal papers and 130 conference papers. Wallace R. Blischke was a member of the faculty of The Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, for 27 years. He is currently Professor Emeritus at the Marshall School and Consultant in Statistical Analysis. His specialities include design of experiments, data analysis, reliability, quality assurance, design of sample surveys, estimation theory, and management science. He is co-author of two books. Show Less
Reviews for Warranty Management and Product Manufacture
From the reviews: "This is supposedly the final book on the subject from the authors and is being claimed as primarily written for managers … . The authors also prescribe this book for graduate students of Business Management, Operations Management and Industrial Engineering. … Overall, the book succeeds in its objective to a very large ... Read moreextent and the reviewer would like to recommend this book to any one who intends to get graduated in the intricacies of warranty designing and administration." (Krishna B. Misra, International Journal of Performability Engineering, Vol. 4 (3), 2008) Show Less
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