Consumable spare parts play an important role during regular and periodic maintenance activities depending on equipment criticality of a manufacturing firm. Usually, these spare parts are consumed together on a regular basis to different equipment with a high percentage of commonality. Complete or partial shutdown of maintenance activity may happen if there is shortages in any of these common p...

The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is an established decision method used to synthesize judgments and select the best alternative. The AHP literature extensively discusses both theory and case studies for judgments made by one person. However, instances exist when the judgments of a group of individuals are needed for accurate knowledge representation and robust decision making. One such inst...

Avoidable unscheduled maintenance events and unnecessary spare parts deliveries are mostly caused by an incorrect choice of the underlying maintenance strategy. For a faster and more efficient supply of spare parts for aircrafts of an airline we examine options for improving the underlying logistics network integrated in an existing aviation industry network. This paper presents a dynamic predi...

The paper presents a joint predictive maintenance and spare parts provisioning policy for gradually deteriorating multicomponent systems with complex structure. The decisionmaking process related to maintenance, spare parts ordering, as well as inspections scheduling is based on both RUL prediction and structural importance measure. Moreover, economic dependency between components is studied an...

Purpose – For more than ten years, the value of additive manufacturing (AM) for after-sales service logistics has been propagated. Today, however, only few applications are observed in practice. In this paper, possible reasons for this discrepancy are discussed and a method is developed to simplify the identification of economically valuable and technologically feasible business cases. Design/m...

In supply chain networks, the flow of material occurs between various business entities such as suppliers, manufactures, distributors and retailers, which can be considered as the various echelons (levels) in a multi-echelon supply chain network. Spare parts supply chain management deals with optimizing stocking, purchasing, repairing and disposing activities of purchased parts and their compon...

Rekabet ortamının giderek artması sonucu işletmeler, maliyetlerini düşürmek ve aynı zamanda kalitelerini arttırmak zorunda kalmaktadır. Bu durum işletmeleri çeşitli kalite iyileştirme tekniklerinden yararlanmaya yönlendirmiştir. Altı Sigma başta olmak üzere çoğu yöntemleri veri odaklı yaklaşımlar olup, bu yöntemlerin başarılı olmasının ilk şartı kullanılan verilerin güvenilir olmasıdır. çalışma...

Design of BOM configuration for reducing spare parts logistic costs Muh-Cherng Wu and Yang-Kang Hsu Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, National Chiao Tung University, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan, ROC Abstract This paper proposes an approach to reduce the total operational cost of a spare part logistic system by appropriately designing the BOM (bill of material) configuration. A spare par...