DocumentCode
3437560
Title
Notice of Retraction
An optimal policy for maintenance, intermediate buffer, and spare parts
Author
Shuyuan Gan ; Zhisheng Zhang ; Yifan Zhou
Author_Institution
Dept. of Mech. Eng., Southeast Univ., Nanjing, China
fYear
2013
fDate
15-18 July 2013
Firstpage
643
Lastpage
648
Abstract
Notice of Retraction
After careful and considered review of the content of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE´s Publication Principles.
We hereby retract the content of this paper. Reasonable effort should be made to remove all past references to this paper.
The presenting author of this paper has the option to appeal this decision by contacting TPII@ieee.org.
Most research on maintenance is devoted to separate maintenance policy, and some other is focused on maintenance optimization with buffer or spare parts considered. However, there is no existing research taking into account maintenance, buffer, and spare parts together. In this paper, an optimal policy is proposed for a production-inventory system, in which the buffer size, the initial time of buffer accumulation, the predetermine age for preventive maintenance, and the spare part arrival time are optimized together by using Monte Carlo simulation and enumeration method. Numerical examples are delivered for sensitivity analysis of key system parameters. Additionally, the same value of minimal long-term expected cost rate is obtained during repetitive optimizations, which can be considered as the accuracy verification of proposed method.
After careful and considered review of the content of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE´s Publication Principles.
We hereby retract the content of this paper. Reasonable effort should be made to remove all past references to this paper.
The presenting author of this paper has the option to appeal this decision by contacting TPII@ieee.org.
Most research on maintenance is devoted to separate maintenance policy, and some other is focused on maintenance optimization with buffer or spare parts considered. However, there is no existing research taking into account maintenance, buffer, and spare parts together. In this paper, an optimal policy is proposed for a production-inventory system, in which the buffer size, the initial time of buffer accumulation, the predetermine age for preventive maintenance, and the spare part arrival time are optimized together by using Monte Carlo simulation and enumeration method. Numerical examples are delivered for sensitivity analysis of key system parameters. Additionally, the same value of minimal long-term expected cost rate is obtained during repetitive optimizations, which can be considered as the accuracy verification of proposed method.
Keywords
Monte Carlo methods; inventory management; optimisation; preventive maintenance; sensitivity analysis; Monte Carlo simulation; buffer accumulation; buffer size; enumeration method; intermediate buffer; maintenance optimization; maintenance policy; minimal long-term expected cost rate; optimal policy; predetermine age; preventive maintenance; production-inventory system; repetitive optimizations; sensitivity analysis; spare part arrival time; system parameters; Joints; Market research; Monte Carlo methods; Optimization; Preventive maintenance; Sensitivity analysis; Monte Carlo simulation; buffer; maintenance; sensitivity analysis; spare parts;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Quality, Reliability, Risk, Maintenance, and Safety Engineering (QR2MSE), 2013 International Conference on
Conference_Location
Chengdu
Print_ISBN
978-1-4799-1014-4
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/QR2MSE.2013.6625661
Filename
6625661
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