Optimizing preventive maintenance models

Optimizing preventive maintenance models

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Article ID: iaor20071631
Country: Germany
Volume: 35
Issue: 2
Start Page Number: 261
End Page Number: 279
Publication Date: Oct 2006
Journal: Computational Optimization and Applications
Authors: , ,
Keywords: scheduling
Abstract:

We deal with the problem of scheduling preventive maintenance (PM) for a system so that, over its operating life, we minimize a performance function which reflects repair and replacement costs as well as the costs of the PM itself. It is assumed that a hazard rate model is known which predicts the frequency of system failure as a function of age. It is also assumed that each PM produces a step reduction in the effective age of the system. We consider some variations and extensions of a PM scheduling approach proposed by Lin et al. In particular we consider numerical algorithms which may be more appropriate for hazard rate models which are less simple than those used by Lin et al. and we introduce some constraints into the problem in order to avoid the possibility of spurious solutions. We also discuss the use of automatic differentiation (AD) as a convenient tool for computing the gradients and Hessians that are needed by numerical optimization methods. The main contribution of the paper is a new problem formulation which allows the optimal number of occurrences of PM to be determined along with their optimal timings. This formulation involves the global minimization of a non-smooth performance function. In our numerical tests this is done via the algorithm DIRECT proposed by Jones et al. We show results for a number of examples, involving different hazard rate models, to give an indication of how PM schedules can vary in response to changes in relative costs of maintenance, repair and replacement.

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