27th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 19 - 24 September 2010, Nice, France
Paper ICAS 2010-7.7.3

CANNIBALIZATION: HOW TO MEASURE AND ITS EFFECT IN THE INVENTORY COST

N. de Oliveira, A. A. Ghobbar
TU Delft, Netherlands

Keywords: cannibalization, commonality, maintenance, inventory cost

This approach is of the highest importance as it is very innovative currently there is no scientific approach to cannibalization in the civil aviation and the outcome will allow maintenance providers to reduce the expenses with spare-parts shortages and to increase readiness, cannibalization is still poorly known in civil aviation

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