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products. Germany, rather than sell/export functional used cars, will disassemble and store parts no longer being produced because their individual value exceed the whole car's value. The same thing happens to certain semiconductors where they are "pulled" from working machines and sold for a profit.
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Sometimes, removing parts from old equipment is the only way to obtain spare parts, either because they are no longer made, are obsolete, or can only be manufactured in large quantities. In logistics, this is known as
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One strategy used to combat DMS is to buy additional inventory during the production run of a system or part, in quantities sufficient to cover the expected number of failures. This strategy is known as a
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Proceedings of the 2007 Aging Aircraft Conference Lifetime Buy Optimization to Minimize Lifecycle Cost, Dan Feng, Pameet Singh, Peter Sandborn, CALCE, Department of Mechanical Engineering University of
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of machine parts, in the maintenance of mechanical or electronic systems with
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equipment. Cannibalization can also be an economic/ecological choice for
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In the electronics market, machines being cannibalized are known as
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UK Aircraft Parts Cannibalization - Regulatory Article (RA) 4812
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such as radar devices made a ready source of parts to build
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Cannibalization usually occurs due to unavailability of
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locomotive 838 is used as a spare parts source for the
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Glossary of Defense Acquisition Acronyms & Terms
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Parts hulk

verification
improve this article
adding citations to reliable sources
"Cannibalization" parts
news
newspapers
books
scholar
JSTOR
Learn how and when to remove this message
interchangeable parts
inventory
spare parts
World War II
surplus equipment
radio
end of life
boneyard

Royal Navy
HMS Eagle
Hamoaze
HMS Ark Royal
DMSMS
ships
aircraft
USS Kitty Hawk
USS Independence

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