This paper discusses the issue of integrating production planning and preventive maintenance in manufacturing production systems. In particular, it tackles the problem of integrating production and preventive maintenance in a system composed of parallel failure-prone production lines. It is assumed that when a production line fails, a minimal repair is carried out to restore it to an ‘as-bad-as...

This paper deals with the production and preventive maintenance control problem for a multiple-machine manufacturing system. The objective of such a problem is to find the production and preventive maintenance rates for the machines so as to minimize the total cost of inventory/backlog, repair and preventive maintenance. A twolevel hierarchical control model is presented, and the structure of t...

The train braking system with redundant components has an essential effect on driver safety. In this paper, we consider the failure of K-out-of-N brake motors during operation and recovery by preventive maintenance. Two Continuous Time Markov Chains (CTMC) are used to model working process maintenance corresponding real situation train. Considering intermittent daily cyclical overhaul nested re...

The aim of this article was to solve a multi-objective maintenance optimization problem by minimizing both unavailability and cost through the use an optimal strategy. took into account three different system designs upon which objective functions are dependent, time start preventive (PM) used as decision variable. This variable optimized for all components using discrete model that allows spec...

In this work, an integrated model of economic production quantity, economic design of an -control chart, and preventive maintenance are investigated under non-uniform quality control parameters. The effect on the expected total cost and quality control cost is investigated with three different assumptions of the quality control parameters. Using a tabu seach algorithm, the optimal values of qua...

This work has two important goals. The first one is to present a novel methodology for preventive maintenance policy evaluation based upon a cost-reliability model, which allows the use of flexible intervals between maintenance interventions. Such innovative features represents an advantage over the traditional methodologies as it allows a continuous fitting of the schedules in order to better ...