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Practical implications of managerial decisions to integrate production scheduling and maintenance

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This work discusses the practical implications of managerial decisions to integrate the scheduling of production and maintenance operations. Integrating both decisions will assure minimizing product holding costs and maintenance costs. In this paper we discuss the case involving a single machine processing a number of jobs differing in processing time requirements. The machine goes through preventive maintenance or corrective maintenance activities which in effect increases the total production cost. We present a modified version of the integrated model developed by Hadidi (Int J Math Oper Res 3: 395–413, 2011) and demonstrate its utilization under various conditions to emphasize the practical implications of the model. In practice, managerial decisions are highly affected by the cost parameters of maintenance, correction and holding costs.

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Abbreviations

N:

Number of jobs to be scheduled

P i :

Processing time of job j

t j :

Time needed to perform PM on the machine

a [0] :

Age of the machine at the beginning of the planning horizon

a [j] :

Age of the machine after the ith job in the sequence

t r :

Time required to repair the machine

c i :

Completion time of the ith job in the sequence

P [i] :

Processing time of the ith job in the sequence

Ï„ :

Number of failures in Ï„ time units of continuous operation

m(Ï„):

Expected number of failures in Ï„ time of continuous operation

c P :

Cost of conducting PM

c m :

Minimal repair cost

Q i :

Job order size

h i :

Holding cost for each of production unit

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The authors acknowledge the support of King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals and University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada. The valuable comments and insights of the two reviewers and the Editor-in-Chief, which improved the content of the paper, are gratefully acknowledged.

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  1. King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

    Laith A. Hadidi & Umar M. Al-Turki

  2. University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada

    M. Abdur Rahim

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Hadidi, L.A., Al-Turki, U.M. & Rahim, M.A. Practical implications of managerial decisions to integrate production scheduling and maintenance. Int J Syst Assur Eng Manag 6, 224–230 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13198-014-0291-9

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