Preventive remanufacturing planning of production equipment under operational and imperfect maintenance constraints: A hybrid genetic algorithm based approach

Yassir Bensmain, Mohammed Dahane, Mohammed Bennekrouf and Zaki Sari

Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 2019, vol. 185, issue C, 546-566

Abstract: Remanufacturing an equipment before the end of its life may generate substantial profits for both the user and the remanufacturer. However, the equipment operating conditions as well as the quality of maintenance actions undergone throughout the life of equipment largely affect the total life cycle costs from the user’s perspective, and the quality of the recovered equipment from the remanufacturer’s perspective. This research aims at investigating the remanufacturing opportunities of production equipment from the user’s perspective, used to produce a single product in order to meet deterministic and dynamic demands over a finite horizon. Preventive maintenance actions on equipment are assumed to be imperfect. Indeed, when performed, these actions can improve the equipment to reach a state between the “As-good-as-new†level and the “As-bad-as-old†level. It is assumed that the stakeholders (the equipment’s user and the original equipment manufacturer-remanufacturer) are interested by all remanufacturing opportunities. The objective of the present work is to develop an integrated approach to jointly optimize the production plan, the remanufacturing plan and the quality of spare parts used in each remanufacturing action.

Keywords: Active remanufacturing; Imperfect maintenance; Production planning; Genetic algorithm; Fix and Relax heuristic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2018.09.001

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