Preventive maintenance practices have been proven to reduce costs in many industries. In the mining industry, preventive is main form of maintenance, especially for mobile equipment. With increase sensor data and installation wireless infrastructure within underground mines, predictive are beginning be applied equipment process. However, transition from succeed, researchers must first understan...

The use of mind maps as a method of building knowledge, planning, organizing activities and ideas can be seen in the literature related to ergonomics. The results of such use are relevant and its use in academic area found. However, regarding to its use in industrial environments, studies can't not be found. With this scenario, and based on the perception of the ergonomist about the importance ...

This paper integrates noncyclical preventive maintenance with tactical production planning in multistate systems. The maintenance policy suggests noncyclical preventive replacements of components, and minimal repair on failed components. The model gives simultaneously the appropriate instants for preventive maintenance, and production planning decisions. It determines an integrated lot-sizing a...

This article is based on a previous study made by Bris, Châtelet and Yalaoui [Bris R, Chatelet E, Yalaoui F. New method to minimise the preventive maintenance cost of series–parallel systems. Reliab Eng Syst Saf 2003;82:247–55]. They use genetic algorithm to minimize preventive maintenance cost problem for the series–parallel systems. We propose to improve their results developing a new method ...

An optimal maintenance strategy for cost effective and machine reliability in food manufacturing industries was developed this study. Maintenance parameters were employed to develop cost-reliability based model terms of an using lingo solver. The cost-reliabilitybased considered system’s reliability, equipment failure, preventive maintenance, corrective downtime associated with - maintenance. A...

Joint optimization models were developed combining group preventive maintenance of a series system and production scheduling. In this paper, we propose a joint optimization model to minimize the total cost including production cost, preventive maintenance cost, minimal repair cost for unexpected failures and tardiness cost. The total cost depends on both the production process and the machine m...

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This work explores the potential of Music-Inspired Harmony Search (MIHS), meta-heuristic technique, in the area of power system for Generator Maintenance Scheduling (GMS). MIHS has been used to generate optimal preventive maintenance schedule for generators to maintain reliable and economical power system operation taking into account the maintenance window, load and crew constraints. The robus...