Joint optimisation of maintenance and buffer size in a manufacturing system

The objective of this work is to jointly optimise the maintenance of a capacity-constrained resource, its feed machine/operation and inlet buffer size. The maintenance of the capacity-constrained resource is condition-based, whilst that of the inlet machine/operation is time-based. The joint optimisation is achieved by the development of a mixed integer linear programming model. A machining example is used to illustrate the application of the model.