Title
Simulation-based planning of maintenance activities in the automotive industry.
Abstract
Factories world-wide do not utilize their existing capacity to a satisfactory level. Several studies indicate an average Overall Equipment Efficiency (OEE) of around 55% in manufacturing industry. One major reason is machine downtime leading to substantial system losses culminating in production plans with unsatisfactory robustness. This paper discusses an approach to integrate maintenance strategies into a production planning approach using discrete event simulation. The aim is to investigate how and where in the planning process maintenance strategies can be integrated and how different maintenance strategies influence production performance and the overall robustness of production plans. The approach is exemplified in an automotive case study, integrating strategies for reactive maintenance in a simulation model to support decision making on how repair orders should be prioritized to increase production performance. The results show that introducing priority-based planning of maintenance activities has a potential to increase productivity by approximately 5%.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.5555/2675983.2676307
WSC '13: Winter Simulation Conference Washington D.C. December, 2013
Keywords
Field
DocType
automobile industry,discrete event simulation,maintenance engineering
Manufacturing,Systems engineering,Computer science,Manufacturing engineering,Robustness (computer science),Production planning,Downtime,Maintenance engineering,Production engineering,Discrete event simulation,Automotive industry
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
0891-7736
978-1-4799-2077-8
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.49
7
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Maheshwaran Gopalakrishnan120.82
Anders Skoogh27910.03
Christoph Laroque32111.89