Optimisation of distributed maintenance: Modelling and application to the multi-factory production

Zineb Simeu-Abazi and Alali Alhouaij Ahmad

Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 2011, vol. 96, issue 11, 1564-1575

Abstract: This paper concerns the modelling and the cost evaluation of maintenance activities in a distributed context. In this work we study the particular case where the maintenance activities are executed by two workshops: a central maintenance workshop (CMW) and a mobile maintenance workshop (MMW). The CMW concerns the repairing process for the corrective maintenance and the MMW executes all preventive maintenance in several factories according to a defined scheduling. The aim is to take into account the resources (spare parts in the MMW) and maintenance actions for a given operating budget. A modular approach for modelling a multi-site structure is proposed to achieve the aim of improving the availability of facilities on production sites while minimising the cost of maintenance.

Keywords: Distributed maintenance; Modelling; Stochastic Petri nets (SPNs); Availability; Scheduling; Cost evaluation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2011.05.011

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