planning and scheduling processes in the order fulfilment system. Thus the question arises, how product variety, manufacturing … conditions and managerial practices interact with the planning and scheduling functions of a firm. In order to improve this … 2007 to 2012 we engaged in a total of 56 interviews related to planning and plant scheduling functions in both sales and …

Heterogeneity in component and maintenance quality is considered in the context of age-based inspection and replacement … failed state. Heterogeneity in maintenance intervention is modelled by supposing that inspections may induce the defective … impact, on system reliability and cost, of switching component or maintenance supplier is determined. Broadly, our finding is …

Maintenance problems are crucial aspect of nowadays industrial problems. However, the quest of the efficient … periodicity of maintenance for all components of a system is far from an easy task to accomplish when considering all the … antagonistic criteria of the maintenance and production views of a production system. Thus, the objective is to simultaneously …

For many types of equipment whose maintenance requires skilled labor or whose random failure may have serious … consequences, such as aircraft engines, medical equipment and others, customers generally prefer to entrust maintenance activities … to the manufacturer or any of its representatives. The latter must, in turn, provide the customer with a maintenance …

To evaluate the outcomes of deploying technicians dedicated to preventive maintenance, instead of fully cross …-trained technicians, this simulation study assesses field service operations of a company selling maintenance services. Comprehensive … service contracts render the maintenance demand experienced by the field service organization dependent on the cross …

During the past decades, several joint maintenance and inventory optimization systems have been studied in literature … related to both maintenance and inventory. The purpose of this paper is to review the pertinent literature on joint … maintenance and inventory optimization models for non-repairable parts and suggest possible gaps. A classification based on the …

planning horizon. However, asset replacement often occurs in the form of a new technology that renders existing spare parts … inventories obsolete. This paper aims to study the impact of spare parts inventory on equipment maintenance and replacement …