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.YE Transactions (1998) 30, 1191-1 199 Warranty and redundancy design with uncertain quality A.Z.M.O. HUSSAIN* and D.N.P. MURTHY Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Queemland, Queensland 4072, Australia E-mail: murthy@mech.uq.edu.au Received February 1997and accepted October 1998 When products of an uncertain quality are sold with a warranty, the expected warranty cost depends on the reliability of the product and on the quality uncertainty. This cost canbe reduced through the use of redundancy and/or quality control techniques. 9 However, these routes increase the manufacturing cost. This paper develops a model to determine the optimal redundancy and 0 0 quality control strategies that achieve a trade-off between the two costs. 2 r e b m e c e 1. Introduction for a conforming one. One way of reducing warranty cost D 4 in this case is through effective quality control. The lit- 2 7 1 The role and importance of warranty has changed sig- erature on quality control is vast. Murthy and : 8 0 nificantly over the last two decades. Currently, almost all Djamaludin [6] have presented a brief review of models : t products are sold with some form of warranty attached. that deal with quality variations and control in manu- A ] y Warranty is of importance to both manufacturers and facturing. Optimal quality control strategies such as lot t i s consume