A joint spare part and maintenance inspection optimisation model using the Delay‐Time concept

A joint spare part and maintenance inspection optimisation model using the Delay‐Time concept

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Article ID: iaor20119167
Volume: 96
Issue: 11
Start Page Number: 1535
End Page Number: 1541
Publication Date: Nov 2011
Journal: Reliability Engineering and System Safety
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Keywords: programming: multiple criteria, inspection, statistics: distributions
Abstract:

Spare parts and maintenance are closely related logistics activities where maintenance generates the need for spare parts. When preventive maintenance is present, it may need more spare parts at one time because of the planned preventive maintenance activities. This paper considers the joint optimisation of three decision variables, e.g., the ordering quantity, ordering interval and inspection interval. The model is constructed using the well‐known Delay‐Time concept where the failure process is divided into a two‐stage process. The objective function is the long run expected cost per unit time in terms of the three decision variables to be optimised. Here we use a block‐based inspection policy where all components are inspected at the same time regardless of the ages of the components. This creates a situation that the time to failure since the immediate previous inspection is random and has to be modelled by a distribution. This time is called the forward time and a limiting but closed form of such distribution is obtained. We develop an algorithm for the optimal solution of the decision process using a combination of analytical and enumeration approaches. The model is demonstrated by a numerical example.

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