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It is well-known that the production decisions are influenced by the state of the production process. Therefore, the process must be maintained in top operating conditions through adequate maintenance programmes. A supply chain with one producer and multiple newsvendors is considered in this...
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This paper analyses the effects of various maintenance policies and part arrival patterns on the performance of a flexible manufacturing cell (FMC). A simulation analysis coupled with design of experiments is utilised in the study. In particular, the design of experiments includes maintenance...
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In the proposed model, the independent system operator (ISO) provides the opportunity for maintenance outage rescheduling of generating units before each short-term (ST) time interval. Long-term (LT) scheduling for 1 or 2years in advance is essential for the ISO and the generation companies...
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Distribution systems are the first volunteers experiencing the benefits of smart grids. The smart grid concept impacts the internal legislation and standards in grid-connected and isolated distribution systems. Demand side management, the main feature of smart grids, acquires clear meaning in...
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Preventive maintenance (PM) has long been recognized as a method to increase equipment reliability and availability. However, for equipment in complex plant installations like toll road/tunnel systems, to carry out PM on all components may not be feasible, or, may end up with excessive...
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In Allaoui H., Lamouri S., Artiba A., Aghezzaf E., Simultaneously scheduling n jobs and the preventive maintenance on the two-machine flow shop to minimize the makespan. International Journal of Production Economics 2008, 112, 161–167, several results are proposed. We show in this note that...
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The multitask cell at GKN Aerospace Sweden is a flexible job shop containing ten resources aimed at being flexible with regard to product mix and processing types. We present a time-indexed formulation of the problem of optimally scheduling the planned jobs on the resources, also considering a...
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By utilizing condition monitoring information collected from wind turbine components, condition based maintenance (CBM) strategy can be used to reduce the operation and maintenance costs of wind power generation systems. The existing CBM methods for wind power generation systems deal with wind...
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Few methods are available for optimizing corrective maintenance and time-based maintenance for wind farms, although these strategies are currently widely used in practice. Economic dependencies exist among wind turbine systems and their components in the wind farm. That is, it may be more...
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and transition probabilities between them are analyzed based on a semi-Markov theory and a regenerative point technique …
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