Reconfiguration-oriented opportunistic maintenance policy for reconfigurable manufacturing systems

Tangbin Xia, Lifeng Xi, Ershun Pan and Jun Ni

Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 2017, vol. 166, issue C, 87-98

Abstract: In today's highly competitive industrial market, reconfigurable manufacturing systems (RMSs) have been invented for diverse products, high quality and quick manufacturing. However, the changeable system structure brings new challenges for multi-unit maintenance scheduling. Thus, this research attempts to develop a novel dynamic maintenance strategy for those reconfigurable structures. In the machine-level decision-making, dynamical maintenance intervals are scheduled according to individual machine degradation. For responding rapidly to various system-level reconfigurations, RMS characters and maintenance opportunities are comprehensively considered. Then, a reconfigurable maintenance time window (RMTW) method is proposed to make real-time schedules for system-level opportunistic maintenance. This reconfiguration-oriented maintenance policy is demonstrated through the case study in a hydraulic steering factory. It is concluded that the proposed methodology can efficiently achieve rapid responsiveness and cost effectiveness for reconfigurable manufacturing systems.

Keywords: Maintenance; Reconfigurable manufacturing system; Reconfigurable structure; Rapid responsiveness; Cost effectiveness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2016.09.001

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