 Capacity planning for a maintenance service provider with advanced informationJulian Kurz European Journal of Operational Research, 2016, vol. 251, issue 2, 466-477 Abstract: Analytical and iterative optimization techniques are employed to solve a job shop-like capacity planning problem for a maintenance service provider with contractually defined lead time requirements. The problem is motivated by a real-life case example, namely the overhaul of airline aircraft engines through an external service provider. The production network is modeled as a network of GI/G/1 queues, where the service rates are the decision variables and capacity costs and penalty costs for not meeting contractually defined lead times are minimized. In addition, we analytically investigate the effects of collaborative maintenance management as a source of advanced information regarding future maintenance demand. More specifically, we consider the benefits of improved service rates and service and demand variabilities on production capacities and total costs. Numerical examples are provided to verify the proposed optimization procedure and illustrate the effects of collaborative maintenance management. Keywords: Production; Queueing; Capacity planning; Collaboration; Maintenance (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:ejores:v:251:y:2016:i:2:p:466-477 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2015.11.029 Access Statistics for this article European Journal of Operational Research is currently edited by Roman Slowinski, Jesus Artalejo, Jean-Charles. Billaut, Robert Dyson and Lorenzo Peccati More articles in European Journal of Operational Research from Elsevier |
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