Cost analysis and extension of a simple maintenance‐scheduling heuristic

Peter Kelle, Edward A. Silver and Glen F. Murphy

Naval Research Logistics (NRL), 1994, vol. 41, issue 7, 945-958

Abstract: Practitioners of maintenance scheduling sometimes use a simple analytic formula, derived based on inspection scheduling, as a heuristic to determine the length of the preventive maintenance period. The sensitivity of this heuristic solution is analyzed and the cost penalties are calculated compared to the exact solution that utilizes the lifetime distribution in the derivation of the optimal preventive maintenance period. A simple extension of the heuristic is suggested to improve the approximation with a slightly increased computational effort. The sensitivity and cost analysis of the improved heuristic are discussed as well. © 1994 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Date: 1994
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