The integration in production planning, scheduling, maintenance and quality has gained
much attention from researchers in recent years. These areas are usually treated …

The ever-growing awareness of environmental protection has significantly influenced the
method of manufacturing products. Due to the introduction of new processes, the …

In general, the maintenance and spare parts inventory policies are treated either separately
or sequentially in industry. However, since the stock level of spare parts is often dependent …

Distributed Scheduling (DS) problems have attracted attention by researchers in recent
years. DS problems in multi-factory production are much more complicated than classical …

This research presents a modelling and solution approach based on discrete-event
simulation and response surface methodology for dealing with average passenger travel …

Maintenance is the set of activities carried out to keep a system into a condition where it can
perform its function. Quite often these systems are production systems where the outputs are …

The nature of maintenance work has changed as a result of a huge increase in the number
and variety of physical assets to be maintained, increasing automation and complexity, new …

This paper deals with the problem of the joint determination of the optimal lot sizing and
optimal production control policy for an unreliable and imperfect manufacturing system …

The traditional production planning model based upon the famous linear programming
formulation has been well documented. However, the integration of preventive maintenance …

This paper deals with the control of corrective and preventive maintenance rates in the
production planning of a manufacturing system with machines subject to random failures …