Optimization of preventive maintenance through a combined maintenance-production simulation model

O. Roux, D. Duvivier, G. Quesnel and E. Ramat

International Journal of Production Economics, 2013, vol. 143, issue 1, 3-12

Abstract: Maintenance problems are crucial aspect of nowadays industrial problems. However, the quest of the efficient periodicity of maintenance for all components of a system is far from an easy task to accomplish when considering all the antagonistic criteria of the maintenance and production views of a production system. Thus, the objective is to simultaneously ensure a low frequency of failures by an efficient periodic preventive maintenance and minimize the unavailability of the system due to preventive maintenance. This implies a minimum impact on the production. In this paper, several tools are combined to collaborate in order to optimize multi-component preventive maintenance problems. The structure of the maintenance-production system is modeled thanks to a framework inspired by our previous research projects. The dynamic aspects are modeled by a combination of timed petri-nets and PDEVS models and implemented in our VLE simulator. The parameters of the resulting simulation model are optimized via a Nelder–Mead (Simplex) Method.

Keywords: Metaheuristics; Simulation; Decision-making; Multimodeling; Petri-nets; Maintenance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2010.11.004

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