Integrated production and maintenance planning for flow line systems

Abstract

This study extends the investigation of the capacitated lot-sizing problem to the production and maintenance planning in unreliable flow line systems. An integrated modelling framework is proposed with the aim of seeking a cost-optimal plan for both production and maintenance. In the model, preventive maintenance is scheduled to avoid unplanned failures, and corrective maintenance is carried out in any machine in which an unplanned failure occurs. A regression-based approximation approach was introduced to calculate the production time under random failures. Then, the integrated planning model can be solved by any commercial optimization software. The numerical example demonstrates that the integrated model guarantees the effectiveness of the production and maintenance plan. It also showed that the buffer capacity has significant effects on the capacity utilization.