Production and maintenance control for manufacturing systems

Author

Boukas, E.K. ; Liu, Z.K.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Mech. Eng., Ecole Polytech., Montreal, Que., Canada

Volume

46

Issue

9

fYear

2001

fDate

9/1/2001 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1455

Lastpage

1460

Abstract

This paper addresses the production and maintenance control problem of a failure prone manufacturing system consisting of one machine and producing one part type. The machine is assumed to have three working states: good, average and bad, and a failure state. In the three working states, the machine can produce parts and some of these parts are rejected with a rate depending on the machine state. In the failure state, no part is produced. The state transition of the machine is governed by a continuous-time Markov process. The jump rates from average and bad states to the good state are the preventive maintenance rates and the one from failure state to good state is the corrective maintenance rate. The production rate and the maintenance rates are optimized

Keywords

Markov processes; optimisation; production control; reliability; Markov process; failure prone manufacturing system; jump rates; machine state; maintenance; optimization; production control; state transition; Aging; Control systems; Large-scale systems; Manufacturing systems; Markov processes; Nonlinear systems; Optimal control; Preventive maintenance; Production systems; Quality control;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9286

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/9.948477

Filename

948477