The process of production planning and control contributes significantly to the efficiency of modern production systems. However, common central planning methods in industrial application show deficits in complex and dynamic production environments. In contrast to prevailing central control methods, approaches of autonomous control offer the chance to cope with these dynamic conditions more eff...

The management of production and inventory control associated activities in remanufacturing production system has received attention by practitioners in the last two decades. This is due to the increased productivity, limited supply of virgin materials, stringent environmental requirements for product disposal and treatment as well as substatial change in global sustainability regulations. In o...

We consider a make-to-stock production/inventory system consisting of a single deteriorating machine which produces a single item. We formulate the integrated decisions of maintenance and production using a Markov Decision Process. The optimal dynamic policy is shown to have a rather complex structure which leads us to consider more implementable policies. We present a double-threshold policy a...