This paper deals with the problem of preventive maintenance (PM) scheduling of pipelines subject to external corrosion defects. The preventive maintenance strategy involves an inspection step at some epoch, together with a repair schedule. This paper proposes to determine the repair schedule as well as an inspection time minimizing the maintenance cost. This problem is formulated as a binary in...

This paper studied the flow shop scheduling problem under machine availability constraints. The machines are subject to flexible preventive maintenance activities. The nonresumable scenario for the jobs was considered. That is, when a job is interrupted by an unavailability period of a machine it should be restarted from the beginning. The objective is to minimize the total tardiness time for t...

Maintenance scheduling of generating units is considered one of the vital power system problem for providing power in a reliable and economic way. In order to improve the overall availability of the generating units, chances of capacity shortage is to be reduced by performing preventive maintenance at regular intervals. In this paper, Hybrid integer coded Water Wave Optimization (HWWO) Algorith...

The majority of the scheduling studies carry a common assumption that machines are available all the time. However, machines may not always be available in the scheduling period due to breakdown or preventive maintenance. Taking preventive maintenance activity into consideration, we dealt with the twomachine flowshop scheduling problem with makespan objective. The preventive maintenance policy ...

In this paper, we propose a multi-skill project scheduling problem model for maintenance activities organization. Preventive maintenance activities are usually planned in advance: production is stopped and all maintenance activities should be processed as fast as possible in order to restart production. Moreover, these human resource handled activities require specific skills and are subject to...

The job scheduling problem (JSP) belongs to the well-known combinatorial optimization domain. After scheduling, if a machine maintenance issue affects the scheduled processing of jobs, the delivery of jobs must be delayed. In this paper, we have first proposed a Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithm (HyEA) for solving JSPs. We have then analysed the effect of machine maintenance, whether preventive or ...

High-Variety, Low-Volume (HVLV) manufacturing systems are built to produce parts of several types in small quantities and under multiple production objectives. They relate to job-shop systems well known by researchers. One of the most studied assumptions of HVLV systems scheduling is considering that machines may be periodically unavailable during the production scheduling. This article deals w...

Generation or transmission maintenance scheduling packages provide preventive or corrective maintenance scheduling over a certain period in order to minimize system costs while fulfilling relative requirements. In advanced power systems inclusion of network constraints and increasing rate of electricity demand may result in higher number of generators and transmission lines and hence lower syst...

Number: 015-0565 Abstract Title: An integrated model for maintenance planning, process qualityTitle: An integrated model for maintenance planning, process quality control and production scheduling Authors Information: 1. Divya Pandey Research Scholar Department of Mechanical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, (IIT Delhi) Hauz Khas, New Delhi India-110016 * Corresponding Author e-...