Planned Replacement
Abstract
This report is part of a long-term study of maintenance policies and their effect on Air Force capabilities and costs. It specifically examines the interactions between planned replacement—a form of preventive maintenance—and the factors of reliability, availability, and cost. It is an abbreviated version of M. Kamins and J. J. McCall, Jr., Rules for Planned Replacement of Aircraft and Missile Parts, The RAND Corporation, Research Memorandum RM-2810-PR, November, 1961.
Management Technology, ISSN 0542-4917, was published as a separate journal from 1960 to 1964. In 1965 it was merged into Management Science.

