Determination of Pareto frontier in multi-objective maintenance optimization

Antonella Certa, Giacomo Galante, Toni Lupo and Gianfranco Passannanti

Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 2011, vol. 96, issue 7, 861-867

Abstract: The objective of a maintenance policy generally is the global maintenance cost minimization that involves not only the direct costs for both the maintenance actions and the spare parts, but also those ones due to the system stop for preventive maintenance and the downtime for failure. For some operating systems, the failure event can be dangerous so that they are asked to operate assuring a very high reliability level between two consecutive fixed stops. The present paper attempts to individuate the set of elements on which performing maintenance actions so that the system can assure the required reliability level until the next fixed stop for maintenance, minimizing both the global maintenance cost and the total maintenance time. In order to solve the previous constrained multi-objective optimization problem, an effective approach is proposed to obtain the best solutions (that is the Pareto optimal frontier) among which the decision maker will choose the more suitable one. As well known, describing the whole Pareto optimal frontier generally is a troublesome task. The paper proposes an algorithm able to rapidly overcome this problem and its effectiveness is shown by an application to a case study regarding a complex series–parallel system.

Keywords: Maintenance optimization; Multi-objective optimization; Reliability; Series–parallel systems (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2010.12.019

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