TY - JOUR AB - An industry which manufactures and sells products that are liable to failure (e.g. TV sets, tape recorders, washing machines or refrigerators), usually has a department for “service after sales”. Such a department must distribute information on how to repair products, and has to supply spare parts to replace defective components during a given number of years. We call these parts service parts. Three phases can be distinguished in the life‐cycle of service parts: VL - 1 IS - 1 SN - 0144-3577 DO - 10.1108/eb054660 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/eb054660 AU - Fortuin Leonard PY - 1980 Y1 - 1980/01/01 TI - The All‐Time Requirement of Spare Parts for Service After Sales—Theoretical Analysis and Practical Results T2 - International Journal of Operations & Production Management PB - MCB UP Ltd SP - 59 EP - 70 Y2 - 2024/04/24 ER -