Traditional scheduling problems with the batch processing machines (BPM) assume that machines are continuously available, and no time is needed for their preventive maintenance (PM). In this paper, we study a realistic variant of flowshop scheduling which integrates flow shop batch processing machines (FBPM) and preventive maintenance for minimizing the makespan. In order to tackle the given pr...

The goal of railway rolling stock maintenance and replacement approaches is to reduce overall cost while increasing reliability which is multi objective optimization problem a proper predictive maintenance scheduling table should be adequately designed. We propose Breeding Particle Swarm Optimization (BPSO) model based on the concepts of Breeding Genetic Algorithm (GA) operators design th...

The supply of PV power that satisfies the needs customers is heavily dependent on reliability generating plants. However, irrespective robustness design such physical industrial assets, they tend to depreciate with usage and/or age which, in turn, increases allowance between and operational capabilities. Therefore, ameliorate system, a combination selective preventive maintenance actions were p...

In this paper we study the problem of determining a production schedule for an order of n jobs on a single machine which is subject to stochastic machine failures. To avoid long downtime of the machine caused by unexpected failures, preventive maintenance should be planned as well. If a failure cannot be averted, a corrective maintenance activity is performed. Both maintenance activities are as...

Aggregate production planning (APP) is one of the most important issues carried out in manufacturing environments which seeks efficient planning, scheduling and coordination of all production activities that optimizes the company's objectives. In this paper, we develop a mixed integer linear programming (MILP) model for an integrated aggregate production planning system with closed loop supply ...

Integrating flexible job-shop scheduling problem (FJSP) with preventive maintenance (PM) is pondered in this paper. Minimizing the makespan for scheduling part and minimizing the system unavailability for maintenance part are simultaneously under consideration. For doing it, the assignment of n jobs on m machines in production side and executing the PM actions at appropriate time intervals in m...