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A two-stage coupled algorithm for an integrated maintenance planning and flowshop scheduling problem with deteriorating machines

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We address a novel integrated maintenance and production scheduling problem in a multi-machine and multi-period production system, considering maintenance as a long-term decision. Deterioration of machines over time decreases production capacity. Since maintenance activities not only improve machine conditions, increasing production capacity, but also take time that cannot be used for production, the challenge is to assign maintenance to periods and to schedule maintenance and production activities within each period to minimize the combined cost of maintenance and lost production over the planning horizon. Motivated by logic-based Benders decomposition, we design an integrated two-stage algorithm to solve the problem. The first stage assigns maintenance to machines and time periods, abstracting the scheduling problem, while the second stage creates a schedule for the current time period. The first stage is then re-solved using feedback from the schedule. This iteration between maintenance planning and scheduling continues until the solution costs in two stages converge. The integrated approach models the interdependencies between maintenance and scheduling decisions in highly coupled processes such as wafer fabrication in the semiconductor manufacturing. Our results demonstrate that the benefit of integrated decision making increases when maintenance is less expensive relative to lost production cost and that a longer horizon for maintenance planning is beneficial when maintenance cost increases.

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  1. We used CPLEX 12.6 as the MIP solver for these results.

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Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank reviewers for their comments, which helped improve the paper. This research was supported by the Discovery Grants Program of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the consortium members of Centre for Maintenance Optimization & Reliability Engineering (C-MORE), the Canadian Foundation for Innovation, the Ontario Research Fund, the Ontario Ministry for Research and Innovation, Microway Inc., IBM ILOG, the University of Toronto Doctoral Completion Award, and the Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto.

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Aramon Bajestani, M., Beck, J.C. A two-stage coupled algorithm for an integrated maintenance planning and flowshop scheduling problem with deteriorating machines. J Sched 18, 471–486 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10951-015-0416-2

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