Jean-Pierre Kenné

TL;DR: In this paper, the control of corrective and preventive maintenance rates in the production planning of a manufacturing system with machines subject to random failures and repairs is discussed, where the objective is to minimize a discounted overall cost consisting of maintenance cost, inventory holding and backlog cost.

TL;DR: An analytical model for the joint determination of an optimal age-dependent buffer inventory and preventive maintenance policy in a production environment that is subject to random machine breakdowns is formulated, and the numerical solution obtained shows that the proposed age- dependent optimal production and maintenance policies significantly reduce the overall cost incurred.

TL;DR: A computational algorithm, based on numerical methods, is given for solving the optimal production control and corrective maintenance planning problem for a failure prone manufacturing system consisting of several identical machines.

TL;DR: A more realistic mathematical model of a manufacturing system with preventive maintenance that produces a single part type and derive expressions of the overall incurred cost used as the basis for optimal determination of the jointly production and preventive maintenance policies is developed.

TL;DR: Based on the structure of the hedging point policy, a parameterized near-optimal production policy for a multiple-product manufacturing system is proposed in this article, where the analytical formalism is combined with simulation-based statistical tools, such as experimental design and response surface methodology, to provide an approximation of the optimal control policy.