Industrial Implementation of Models for Joint Production and Maintenance Planning

Abstract

The paper aims at investigating the industrial applicability of models for joint production and maintenance planning. Scientific community has paid attention to this issue for decades and more recently many researchers proposed models to optimize such kind of planning. Nevertheless each scientific work is based on its peculiarities and hypothesis, which might prevent the applicability within different industrial contexts. This is also due to the very theoretical roots of many models, often tested only within numeric or simulation scenarios. This paper aims at presenting a case study analysis where the industrial test-bench is analysed to understand how these types of model are adaptable and extendable to a real context. To support the case study analysis, the main literature on the topic is reviewed, with the purpose to provide the background for the model deployment and test within the selected industrial context. © IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2014.