A real-time maintenance scheduling policy in serial production lines

Author

Lu, Lingbo ; Liu, Yang ; Li, Jingshan ; Chang, Cindy ; Biller, Stephan ; Xiao, Guoxian

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA

fYear

2011

fDate

21-25 June 2011

Firstpage

36

Lastpage

41

Abstract

In this paper, we carry out a simulation study to integrate preventive maintenance scheduling policy with real-time production system analysis and workforce dispatching rule to investigate the impact of such a policy on system productivity. The preventive maintenance is triggered by the threshold of number of breakdowns and current up- and downstream buffer status, with the maintenance workforce being dispatched based on dynamic bottleneck policy. It is shown that the system performance can be improved by implementing such a real-time scheduling policy.

Keywords

dispatching; labour resources; manufacturing systems; preventive maintenance; productivity; real-time systems; scheduling; breakdown; downstream buffer status; dynamic bottleneck policy; maintenance workforce; preventive maintenance scheduling policy; real-time maintenance scheduling policy; real-time production system analysis; serial production line; system performance; system productivity; upstream buffer status; workforce dispatching rule; Electric breakdown; Preventive maintenance; bottleneck; real-time scheduling; serial production line; threshold;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Control and Automation (WCICA), 2011 9th World Congress on

Conference_Location

Taipei

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-698-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCICA.2011.5970578

Filename

5970578