Optimal maintenance in the supply chain

A supply chain can be characterized as a network of production and logistics processes with a finite number of elements usually belonging to different companies and hierarchies. Thus, SCM means a close, trustful cooperation within this network. Reliability of the network elements is one of the critical success factors for that form of cooperation. Here we consider an element of the supply chain within a JIT setting which is "technically" unreliable, e. g. due to a reduced machine productivity ...