This paper proposes a joint optimization approach for the production decisionmaking and inventory allocation in a fault-prone machine supply chain system, considering production and supply uncertainty as well as the impact of machine failure. A model based on Markov decision theory is presented...

Sustainability perceptions towards digitalization of maintenance services – A survey AbstractDigital maintenance has the potential to leverage data and advanced analytics to forecast, prevent, diagnose, and rectify equipment issues. To better fulfill the maintenance objective, digital...

The aviation industry faces many challenges. One of which is unprepared aircraft maintenance graduates taking licensure exams. Students preparing for CAAP licensure examination typically return to their undergraduate school to ask their technical instructors to train them for their incoming...

The article proposes an approach for modeling and solving the air cargo transportation, loading, and phase-based maintenance scheduling problems in an integrated fashion. It describes the demand channel routing strategy to meet the earliest pickup and delivery requirements in emergency...

In this study, the problem of scheduling a set of jobs and one uncertain maintenance activity on a single machine, with the objective of minimizing the makespan is addressed. The maintenance activity has a given duration and must be executed within a given time window. Furthermore, duration and...