Challenges in predictive maintenance–A review

P Nunes, J Santos, E Rocha - CIRP Journal of Manufacturing Science and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Predictive maintenance (PdM) aims the reduction of costs to increase the competitive
strength of the enterprises. It uses sensor data together with analytics techniques to optimize …

State of the art in simulation-based optimisation for maintenance systems

A Alrabghi, A Tiwari - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2015 - Elsevier
Recently, more attention has been directed towards improving and optimising maintenance
in manufacturing systems using simulation. This paper aims to report the state of the art in …

Deep reinforcement learning based preventive maintenance policy for serial production lines

J Huang, Q Chang, J Arinez - Expert Systems with Applications, 2020 - Elsevier
In the manufacturing industry, the preventive maintenance (PM) is a common practice to
reduce random machine failures by replacing/repairing the aged machines or parts. The …

Deep multi-agent reinforcement learning for multi-level preventive maintenance in manufacturing systems

J Su, J Huang, S Adams, Q Chang, PA Beling - Expert systems with …, 2022 - Elsevier
Designing preventive maintenance (PM) policies that ensure smooth and efficient
production for large-scale manufacturing systems is non-trivial. Recent model-free …

A new paradigm of cloud-based predictive maintenance for intelligent manufacturing

J Wang, L Zhang, L Duan, RX Gao - Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, 2017 - Springer
Advances in cloud computing reshape the manufacturing industry into dynamically scalable,
on-demand service oriented, and highly distributed cost-efficient business model. However it …

Condition-based maintenance strategy for redundant systems with arbitrary structures using improved reinforcement learning

A Yang, Q Qiu, M Zhu, L Cui, W Chen, J Chen - Reliability Engineering & …, 2022 - Elsevier
The condition-based maintenance (CBM) decision-making for redundant systems has
attracted increasing attention. Most existing studies are dedicated to k-out-of-n redundant …

A joint optimization of strategic workforce planning and preventive maintenance scheduling: a simulation–Optimization approach

AM Akl, S El Sawah, RK Chakrabortty… - Reliability Engineering & …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a Simulation–Optimization framework, where a maintenance system of
high-value assets is modelled via a novel large-scale Discrete Event Simulation model. In …

Hybrid MCDM based methodology for selecting the optimum maintenance strategy for ship machinery systems

I Emovon, RA Norman, AJ Murphy - Journal of intelligent manufacturing, 2018 - Springer
The key to achieving optimum ship system reliability and safety is to have a sound
maintenance management system in place for mitigating or eliminating …

A novel approach for modelling complex maintenance systems using discrete event simulation

A Alrabghi, A Tiwari - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2016 - Elsevier
Existing approaches for modelling maintenance rely on oversimplified assumptions which
prevent them from reflecting the complexity found in industrial systems. In this paper, we …

An integrated control strategy for simultaneous robot assignment, tool change and preventive maintenance scheduling using Heterogeneous Graph Neural Network

K Bhatta, Q Chang - Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, 2023 - Elsevier
There has been a leap in the field of smart manufacturing with the advancement of
automation systems, robotic technology, big data analytics, and state-of-the-art Artificial …