Bridging reliability and operations management for superior system availability: Challenges and opportunities

Recently, firms have begun to handle the design, manufacturing, and maintenance of capital goods through a consolidated mechanism called integrated product-service system. This new paradigm enables deliver high-reliability products while lowering ownership cost. Hence, holistic optimization models must be proposed for jointly allocating reliability, maintenance, spare parts inventory across entire value chain. In existing literature, these decisions are often made fragmentally, thus resulting in local optimality. study reviews extant works pertaining reliability-redundancy allocation, preventative logistics models. We discuss challenges opportunities consolidating under an reliability-maintenance-inventory framework attaining superior system availability. Specific interest is focused on product introduction phase which face variety uncertainties, including installed base, usage, trade policy. The goal call tackling allocation model nonstationary operating condition. Finally, we place semiconductor equipment industry show how firm deploys reliability initiatives after-sale support ensure fleet uptime its global customers.