Production planning and maintenance are two important problems in manufacturing systems. Despite the relationship exists between these two problems due to sudden failures and production capacity occupied by maintenance activities, each of these problems planned separately and as a result program and model efficiencies reduce in the real world. The aim of integrated production and maintena...

Production costs in general, and workforce and inventory costs in particular, constitute a large fraction of the operating costs of many manufacturing plants. We introduce cooperative aggregate production planning as a way to decrease these costs. That is, when production planning of two or more facilities (plants) is integrated, they can interchange workforce and products inventory; thus, thei...

Nowadays, the necessity of manufacturers’ response to their customers’ needs and their fields of activities have extended widely. The cellular manufacturing systems have adopted reduced costs from mass-production systems and high flexibility from job-shop manufacturing systems, and therefore, they are very popular in modern manufacturing environments. Manufacturing systems, in addit...

this paper presents the steady state behavior and maintenance planning of the bleaching system in a paper plant. the paper plant comprises of various systems including feeding, chipping, digesting, washing, bleaching, screening, stock preparation and paper making, etc. one of the most important functionaries of a paper plant, on which quality of paper depends, is the bleaching system, where rem...

This paper presents a new model for workforce allocation in labourintensive industries. In such industries where production processes mostly include manual assembly operations, performance is highly influenced by the availability of skilled workers. Sudden unavailability of skilled labour has significant adverse effects on production. Furthermore, as competition intensifies, production becomes ...

In today's competitive market, all manufacturers attempt to improve their maintenance policy in order to decrease the cost of failure and increase the quality of products, but most of these attempts do not consider the role of humans involved in a manufacturing system. Human resources are the main factor in manufacturing that has an undeniable effect on products quality, machines reliability, s...

In this paper, we deal with the problem of maintenance planning and production planning for a multiple-product manufacturing system. The manufacturing system under consideration consists of one machine which is subject to random failures and produces several products in order to satisfy some random demands. At any given time, the machine can only produce one type of product. The purpose of this...

We consider the integrated workforce planning and allocation problem for a high volume manufacturing facility that operates in two non-overlapping shifts of twelve hours each day, with twenty eight shifts for a two week planing period. In such facilities, operational workforce planning is typically carried out in two steps consisting of the multishift assignments and the single-shift allocation...

“Planning and Scheduling in Manufacturing and Services” written by Michael L. Pinedo and published in the Springer Series in Operations Research is a recent book intended for a senior level or master level course on planning and scheduling either in an engineering or a business school. The book consists of four parts. Part I introduces the main features of scheduling models in manufacturing and...

A reliable maintenance system is critical to maintain an acceptable level of profit and competition. One of those techniques that are gaining a lot of interest in the manufacturing field is Non-Destructive Testing (NDT). In this work we propose an approach to integrate NDT into the development process of intelligent manufacturing systems. We propose an extension of ANEMONA, a multi-agent based ...