This paper surveys the research published on the machine interference problem, also called
the machine repairman problem, in which machines interfere with each other's service. Our …

In this paper we consider workforce management in repair/maintenance environments in
which repairmen are cross-trained to attend more than one type of machine. In this context …

A dynamic decision model that coordinates dispatching and preventive maintenance
decisions for failure-prone parallel machines in make-to-order (MTO) production …

This research investigates the challenges of dynamic dispatching and preventive
maintenance (DDPM) in large flexible manufacturing systems (FMS) that handle various …

Evacuation from a health care facility is considered last resort, and in the event of a complete
evacuation, a standard planning assumption is that all patients will be evacuated. A …

A decomposed dynamic dispatching and preventive maintenance (D-DDPM) framework is
presented to overcome the computational challenges of solving large DDPM problems …

Finite input source queuing models have a wide range of applications in many practical
situations and are frequently found in machine maintenance and repair operations. Owing to …

We consider a finite-population queueing system with heterogeneous classes of customers
and a single server. For the case of nonpreemptive service, we fully characterize the …

The success of a healthcare facility evacuation depends on communication and decision-
making at all levels of the organization, from the coordinators at incident command to the …

In this paper, we analyze a repair shop serving several fleets of machines that fail from time
to time. To reduce downtime costs, a continuous-review spare machine inventory is kept for …