Life cycle maintenance planning method in consideration of operation and maintenance integration

Production Planning & Control: The Management of Operations, Volume 23, Issue 2-3, 2012, pages 183-193
Special Issue: Sustainable Manufacturing
Life cycle maintenance planning method in consideration of operation and maintenance integration
M. Tsutsuia* & S. Takataa
^a Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering, Waseda University, Okubo 3-4-1, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan
Abstract
Authors propose a maintenance planning method that takes into account the interrelation between maintenance and operations. In the proposed system, the maintenance plan is evaluated in terms of losses related to operations as well as maintenance.
Operational losses include production losses due to both failure and maintenance operations. Maintenance losses include inspection costs, repair costs and other losses. The system also evaluates the risk of fatal failure. A prototype system has been developed that evaluates losses using Monte Carlo simulation. The effectiveness of the system is measured by applying the prototype to a heating furnace used in the direct desulphurisation facility of an oil refinery plant.
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