Article ID: | iaor20122643 |
Volume: | 101 |
Issue: | 4 |
Start Page Number: | 59 |
End Page Number: | 66 |
Publication Date: | May 2012 |
Journal: | Reliability Engineering and System Safety |
Authors: | Nourelfath Mustapha, Chtelet Eric |
Keywords: | inventory, production |
This paper deals with the problem of integrating preventive maintenance and tactical production planning, for a production system composed of a set of parallel components, in the presence of economic dependence and common cause failures. Economic dependence means that performing maintenance on several components jointly costs less money and time than on each component separately. Common cause failures correspond to events that lead to simultaneous failure of multiple components due to a common cause. We use the