Title
Joint optimisation of inspection maintenance and spare parts provisioning: a comparative study of inventory policies using simulation and survey data.
Abstract
The demand for industrial plant spare parts is driven, at least in part, by maintenance requirements. It is therefore important to jointly optimise planned maintenance and the associated spare parts inventory using the most appropriate maintenance and replenishment policies. In this simulation-based study, we address this challenge in the context of the random failure of parts in service and the replacement of defective parts at inspections of period T. Inspections are modelled using the delay-time concept. A number of simultaneous periodic review and continuous review replenishment policies are compared. A paper making plant provides a real context for the presentation of our ideas. We survey practitioners working with such plant to collect real data that inform the values of parameters in the models. Our simulation results indicate that a periodic review policy with ordering that is twice as frequent as inspection is cost optimal in the context of the plant that we study. For the purpose of comparison, we also present and discuss the characteristics of the various policies considered.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1016/j.ress.2017.03.007
Reliability Engineering & System Safety
Keywords
Field
DocType
Maintenance,Spare parts,Delay-time,Simulation,Joint optimisation
Planned maintenance,Survey data collection,Spare part,Provisioning,Engineering,Reliability engineering
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
168
0951-8320
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.39
17
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Farhad Zahedi-Hosseini130.73
Philip A. Scarf215214.80
Aris A. Syntetos316614.78