Abstract
Economic trends, increasing inflation, growing costs of many systems and products, as well as budget constraints, have created awareness and aroused interest in the system/product total cost. Total cost of ownership is a key concern in consumer as well as commercial sectors. Experience has indicated that a large portion of the total costs for many systems is a direct result of the activities associated with their operation, while the scale of these costs is based on decisions made in early stages of the system’s life cycle. The motor vehicle industry is still one of the largest and strongest industries in the world and its development stage nowadays is characterized by the manufacturing and exploitation of a wide range of different types and categories of motor vehicles. This research is made on user's costs of 3 three different vehicles in a vehicle fleet in Macedonia. Various methods of maintenance such as preventive and corrective maintenance are taken into consideration. A Life Cycle Cost (LCC) model is a simplified representation of the real system. Its function is to abstract the salient features and aspects of the product and to translate them into a cost figure. A Life Cycle Cost (LCC) analysis is a process of identifying and evaluating costs associated with acquisition and ownership of a product during its life cycle. This article shows a LCC model of vehicle ownership costs. According to this model a separate LCC analysis is made for each vehicle and for 3 three different regimes of exploitation.
KEYWORDS – Life Cycle Cost – LCC, LCC model, availability, ownership cost, user’s total cost