Analysis of maintenance policies for M machines with deteriorating performance

Date
2000
Authors
Berk, E.
Moinzadeh, K.
Advisor
Instructor
Source Title
IIE Transactions
Print ISSN
0740-817X
Electronic ISSN
1545-8830
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Volume
32
Issue
5
Pages
433 - 444
Language
English
Type
Article
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Abstract

In this paper, we consider the maintenance scheduling of a group of M identical machines, the performance of which deteriorates with usage. Examples of such situations are frequently found in the heavy machine tooling, petro-chemical and semi-conductor industries among others. Assuming a limited maintenance resource and that the maintenance times are i.i.d., we propose a dynamic maintenance policy which utilities the information about the number of operating machines and their ages. We analyze the system for the special cases of constant and exponentially distributed maintenance times. We investigate the impact of maintenance time variability on system performance and evaluate the performance of various maintenance policies within the proposed policy class when the expected profit rate is maximized.

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Keywords
Maintenance, Optimization, Maintenance policies, Scheduling
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