Maintenance policy optimization—literature review and directions

SH Ding, S Kamaruddin - The International Journal of Advanced …, 2015‏ - Springer
Numerous of maintenance policies were developed due to the change in the manufacturing
environment and the growing of technologies in the past few decades. Due to fluctuation …

State of the art in simulation-based optimisation for maintenance systems

A Alrabghi, A Tiwari - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2015‏ - Elsevier
Recently, more attention has been directed towards improving and optimising maintenance
in manufacturing systems using simulation. This paper aims to report the state of the art in …

Asset maintenance optimisation approaches in the chemical and process industries–A review

HH Chin, PS Varbanov, JJ Klemeš… - … Research and Design, 2020‏ - Elsevier
The operational performance of a chemical process plant highly depends on the assets'
condition and maintenance practices. As chemical processes are highly complex systems …

An integrated production and maintenance planning model with time windows and shortage cost

NM Najid, M Alaoui-Selsouli… - International journal of …, 2011‏ - Taylor & Francis
In this paper, we tackle the problem of integrating production and maintenance. The
production problem addresses the issue of determining the production lot sizes of various …

Monte Carlo-based assessment of system availability. A case study for cogeneration plants

AC Marquez, AS Heguedas, B Iung - Reliability Engineering & System …, 2005‏ - Elsevier
The complexity of the modern engineering systems besides the need for realistic
considerations when modeling their availability and reliability render analytic methods very …

[HTML][HTML] Simulating dynamic RUL based CBM scheduling. A case study in the railway sector

AC Márquez, JAM Alberca, AC del Castillo - Computers in Industry, 2023‏ - Elsevier
This paper uses continuous time computer simulation tools to analyze the maintenance
scheduling problem of a fleet of assets that is subjected to a CBM (Condition-Based …

Maintenance performance measurement–a case of the sugar industry

BS Gandhare, MM Akarte, PP Patil - Journal of Quality in …, 2018‏ - emerald.com
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Simulation study of a bottleneck-based dispatching policy for a maintenance workforce

R Langer, J Li, S Biller, Q Chang… - International Journal of …, 2010‏ - Taylor & Francis
Maintenance is important for production operations and for continuous improvement.
Appropriate dispatching of the maintenance workforce to quickly respond to equipment …

Reducing turn-round variability through the application of Six Sigma in aerospace MRO facilities

AJ Thomas, R Mason-Jones, A Davies… - Journal of Manufacturing …, 2015‏ - emerald.com
Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to outline the application of a Six Sigma (SS)
methodology as a means of reducing supply chain risk in aerospace maintenance repair …

A structured approach for the assessment of system availability and reliability using Monte Carlo simulation

A Crespo Marquez, B Iung - Journal of Quality in Maintenance …, 2007‏ - emerald.com
Purpose–This paper proposes a method to model and assess the availability and reliability
of a system when numerous factors such as system complexity, wide range of failure modes …