Keyword: maintenance, repair & replacement

Found 626 papers in total
An intelligent maintenance system for earth-based failure analysis and self-repairing of microsatellites
2004,
This paper describes a recently developed maintenance system for a microsatellite,...
Optimal design of unreliable production–inventory systems with variable production rate
2005,
In this article, we study an economic manufacturing quantity (EMQ) problem for an...
Makespan minimization for two parallel machines with an availability constraint
2005,
In this paper, we consider a two parallel machine problem where one machine is not...
An improved approximation algorithm for the single machine total completion time scheduling problem with availability constraints
2005,
In this paper, we study the single machine total completion scheduling problem subject...
Bridge annual maintenance prioritization under uncertainty by multiobjective combinatorial optimization
2005,
Bridge managers are facing ever-increasing tasks of prioritizing limited budgets to...
All-integer type linear programming model analyses for the optimal railway track maintenance scheduling
2004,
Railway track irregularities have to be kept at a satisfactory level by taking...
Budget allocation for steel bridge paint maintenance
2004,
Government authorities are responsible for managing their available budget so that...
A (r,r,Q) inventory model for spare parts involving equipment criticality
2005,
Demand for spare parts can sometimes be classified into critical and non-critical...
Optimal age-replacement policy of a system subject to shocks with random lead-time
2004,
This paper considers a generalized age-replacement policy of a system subject to...
Stochastic scheduling subject to machine breakdowns: The preemptive-repeat model with discounted reward and other criteria
2004,
We consider the problem of scheduling a set of jobs on a single machine subject to...
Analysis of a production/inventory system with randomly failing production unit submitted to regular preventive maintenance
2004,
In this paper we consider a repairable production unit subject to random failures,...
A fully polynomial time approximation scheme for scheduling a two-machine flowshop with one unavailability interval
2004,
We study a deterministic two-machine flowshop scheduling problem with an assumption...
Sequential inspection strategy for multiple systems under availability requirement
2004,
System failures are usually observed during regular maintenance or inspection and this...
Stocking decisions for repairable spare parts pooling in a multi-hub system
2005,
This paper presents an analytical model for determining spare parts stocking levels in...
On the application of stochastic models in nuclear power plant maintenance
2004,
Whereas Philip A. Scarf's effort can be seen as an “appeal to Maintenance...
Separation model design of manufacturing systems using the distributed agent-oriented Petri net
2005,
Manufacturing systems are hardly modelled and analysed in detail due to the complex...
Technological advancement, learning, and the adoption of new technology
2004,
This research focuses attention upon three related issues: the persistence of...
Life prediction of aging wood poles and subsequent inspection practice: a case study
2004,
Present methods of establishing inspection and maintenance programmes for wood poles...
The data broadcast problem with non-uniform transmission times
2003,
The Data Broadcast Problem consists of finding an infinite schedule to broadcast a...
Joint optimisation of preventive maintenance and inventory control in a production line using simulation
2004,
This paper proposes an integrated method for preventive maintenance and inventory...
Assessing joint maintenance shops in the Taiwanese Army using data envelopment analysis
2004,
This paper proposes an alternative data envelopment analysis (DEA) method for...
Optimal maintenance model for a multistate deteriorating system: a geometric process approach
2003,
A monotone process model is introduced for a deteriorating system with k + 1...
Inspection and predictive maintenance strategies
1998,
This paper addresses the problem of generating optimal inspection strategies for...
Scheduling under machine breakdown in a continuous process industry
2004,
In many continuous process industries, machine breakdowns may affect the planned...
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