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Scheduling Maintenance and Determining Crew Size for Stochastically Failing Equipment

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  • R. C. Vergin

    (School of Business Administration, University of California at Berkeley)

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Past treatment of the single machine maintenance problem has shown that preventive maintenance may be desirable for equipment for which failures are caused at least partially by wear-out factors. In all previous treatment, however, the size of the maintenance-repair crew has been held constant and the optimal maintenance period has then been determined. This paper develops a simultaneous solution for the maintenance-repair crew size and the optimal maintenance period. The optimal maintenance period is seen to shift as the size of the maintenance-repair crew varies. For the multi-machine maintenance problem, the sharing of the maintenance-repair crew creates a queuing system. Because of its complexity, an analytical solution of this multi-machine maintenance queuing system is not feasible. A simulation model was used to develop a set of general rules for scheduling maintenance for the multi-machine case.

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  • R. C. Vergin, 1966. "Scheduling Maintenance and Determining Crew Size for Stochastically Failing Equipment," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 13(2), pages 52-65, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:ormnsc:v:13:y:1966:i:2:p:b52-b65
    DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.13.2.B52
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    1. Nima Safaei & Dragan Banjevic & Andrew Jardine, 2011. "Workforce-constrained maintenance scheduling for military aircraft fleet: a case study," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 186(1), pages 295-316, June.
    2. Al-Zubaidi, Hassan & Christer, A. H., 1997. "Maintenance manpower modelling for a hospital building complex," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 99(3), pages 603-618, June.
    3. N Safaei & D Banjevic & A K S Jardine, 2011. "Bi-objective workforce-constrained maintenance scheduling: a case study," Journal of the Operational Research Society, Palgrave Macmillan;The OR Society, vol. 62(6), pages 1005-1018, June.

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