Planning production and preventive maintenance in a flexible manufacturing system: a stochastic control approach

Author

Boukas, K. ; Haurie, A.

Author_Institution

GERAD, Montreal, Que., Canada

fYear

1988

fDate

7-9 Dec 1988

Firstpage

2294

Abstract

The authors deal with a continuous-time stochastic control model designed for planning production and preventive maintenance in a flexible manufacturing system. This model extends previous formulations due to G.J. Olsder and R. Suri (1980) or J. Kimemia and S.B. Gershwin (1985) by including an age-dependent machine failure rate and by allowing the control to influence some jump rates (namely, the preventive maintenance activities). By using an adaptation to the case of piecewise deterministic systems of the approximation technique initially proposed by H.J. Kushner (1977) in the realm of the optimal control of diffusions, it is shown how it is possible to compute the optimal control for a two-machine system

Keywords

flexible manufacturing systems; maintenance engineering; optimal control; production control; stochastic systems; FMS; flexible manufacturing system; jump rates; machine failure rate; optimal control; preventive maintenance; production planning; stochastic control; two-machine system; Control system synthesis; Dynamic programming; Equations; Flexible manufacturing systems; Markov processes; Optimal control; Preventive maintenance; Production planning; Production systems; Stochastic systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Decision and Control, 1988., Proceedings of the 27th IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Austin, TX

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CDC.1988.194746

Filename

194746