Fav. Schouten et Sg. Vanneste, MAINTENANCE OPTIMIZATION OF A PRODUCTION SYSTEM WITH BUFFER CAPACITY, European journal of operational research, 82(2), 1995, pp. 323-338
Citations number
18
Categorie Soggetti
Management,"Operatione Research & Management Science
We consider a deteriorating installation, which supplies input to a su
bsequent production system. The installation is provided with a buffer
to cope with unexpected failures of the installation, which may cause
interruptions of the production process. By preventive maintenance on
the installation a further improvement of the production process can
be obtained, In this paper we consider a preventive maintenance policy
, which is based not only on the information about the age of the inst
allation but also on the content of the subsequent buffer. For this in
tegrated maintenance-production problem, we analyse a class of control
limit policies which are nearly optimal and easy to implement. The an
alysis is based on the embedding technique from Markov decision theory
, In addition, we provide a characterization of the overall optimal po
licy and report on numerical comparisons of the best control limit pol
icy with the overall optimal policy and other reference policies.