Shop floor level operations planning significantly affect the production system performance. Traditionally, in a production system, maintenance planning and production scheduling have been considered and optimized independently. However, these two aspects of operations planning do have an interaction effect on each other and hence need to be considered jointly for improving the system performan...

A multi-objective simulated annealing (MOSA) algorithm is described in this chapter to solve a real maintenance workforce scheduling problem (MWSP) aimed at simultaneously minimizing the workforce cost and maximizing the equipment availability. Heavy industry maintenance facilities at aircraft service centres, railroad yards and steel companies must contend with scheduling Preventive Maintenanc...

We consider the problem of scheduling a maintenance activity and jobs on a single machine, where the maintenance activity must start before a given deadline and the maintenance duration increases with its starting time. We provide polynomial-time algorithms to solve the problems to minimize the makespan, sum of completion times, maximum lateness, and number of tardy jobs. 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All...

This thesis reports on research into the applicability of intelligent agents in the airline scheduling environment. The methodology employed was to look at intelligent agent research and then, based on this, to build models that can be used to solve some of the airline scheduling problems. • An agent-based model was developed that can assist airline schedulers in the maintenance of a disrupted ...

Effective maintenance keeps machines in good working condition, improving the machine availability during production. It also minimizes the process failure rate due to component failure, resulting into improved product quality. In this paper the interrelationship between maintenance, production scheduling and quality control is captured using an integrated approach. A mathematical model compris...