Searching for multiobjective preventive maintenance schedules: Combining preferences with evolutionary algorithms

Heavy industry maintenance facilities at aircraft service centers or railroad yards must contend with scheduling preventive maintenance tasks to ensure critical equipment remains available. The workforce that performs these tasks are often high-paid, which means the task scheduling should minimize worker idle time. Idle time can always be minimized by reducing the workforce. However, all preventive maintenance tasks should be completed as quickly as possible to make equipment available. This means the completion time should be also minimized. Unfortunately, a small workforce cannot complete many maintenance tasks per hour. Hence, there is a tradeoff: should the workforce be small to reduce idle time or should it be large so more maintenance can be performed each hour? A cost effective schedule should strike some balance between a minimum schedule and a minimum size workforce.     

Warranty servicing strategies to improve customer satisfaction

Customer satisfaction with a purchased product depends on itsperformance under warranty and during the remainder of its usefullife. Dissatisfaction with an item is important to a manufacturersince it can lead to the loss of potential customers throughthe negative word-of-mouth effect as well as existing customersswitching to a competitor. In this paper, we define satisfactionin terms of the likelihood of a customer not switching to adifferent manufacturer when a new item needs to be purchased. Manufacturers can use specific servicing strategies to reducewarranty costs and this topic has already been addressed inthe literature without considering the effect of customer dissatisfaction.In this paper, we propose particular strategies that will increasecustomer satisfaction and we discuss methods for obtaining theoptimal parameters of these strategies.     

系统最佳维修策略研究

一个复杂系统通常由多个不同部件组成，考虑到这些部件有各自不同的失效率及维修时间，本提出了一种新的维修策略模型，该模型考虑了不同部件的差异性及对系统的不同重要性，在一定可用度要求下，使系统总平均费用达到最小的最佳预防维修周期，并给出了相应的仿真算法。     

The availability model and parameters estimation method for the delay time model with imperfect maintenance at inspection

The delay time model (DTM) is widely used to model the two-stage failure process and is helpful for developing cost-effective inspection/maintenance plans. Imperfect maintenance is common in practice, but seldom considered in DTM. An improved DTM with imperfect maintenance at inspection has been developed based on the assumption of imperfect inspection maintenance and perfect failure maintenance. The model of the long-run availability for the improved DTM is established. Parameters estimation method and the test for goodness of fit method are given. Numerical simulations are performed to study the influence of imperfect maintenance on the long-run availability and to validate the credibility of the parameters estimation method. The results show that imperfect maintenance will decrease the long-run availability. The existence of the optimal inspection interval regarding the maximum long-run availability is tightly related to the improvement factor, which denotes the maintenance effect. The parameters estimation method proves credible. The maximum likelihood estimations of the reliability parameters can be easily achieved by the Genetic Algorithms (GAs) searching tool.     

原子吸收分光光度计日常维护及常见故障排除

介绍了原子吸收分光光度计日常维护注意事项及常见故障排除方法.     

Maintenance models in warranty: A literature review

Along with increasing the warranty period for complex systems, reducing the warranty servicing costs has become an issue of great importance to the manufacturers. One possible way to reduce the expected warranty servicing cost is by making sound decision on the product warranty and maintenance strategies. Therefore, warranties (basic warranty and extended warranty) and maintenance (corrective and preventive) are strongly interlinked and of great interest to both manufacturers and customers. This paper is the first identifiable academic literature review to deal with warranty and maintenance. It provides a classification scheme for the articles that link warranty and maintenance published between 2001 and 2011 covering 44 journals and proposes a taxonomy scheme to classify these articles. Nine hundred articles were identified for their relevance to warranty and were carefully reviewed. One-hundred and twenty-two articles were subsequently selected for their relevance to maintenance and included in the classification.     

高技术弹药检修一体化模式及应用研究

为克服传统弹药维修模式下质量检测监控与修理作业分离、检测机构与修理机构分离、军方维修保障力量与民间力量分离的格局,适应高技术弹药维修保障需求,在分析高技术弹药检测与修理技术、检测与修理机构、检测与修理资源等三方面一体化需求的基础上,提出了修理技术、检修力量、维修资源“三维一体”的检修一体化维修模式,构建了通用、专用、辅助3类123种维修设备体系和安全保障、技术方法、业务管理3类52种维修标准体系;对促进传统弹药维修模式的转变,加快高技术弹药维修保障能力的建设具有现实指导作用。     

基于GJB5000A的军用软件维护流程研究

为了规范我国军用软件的管理,以及使军方更方便对军用软件的维护,通过将GJB5000A、GJB1267等标准与实际工作情况进行结合,提出了一套军用软件维护流程;该流程设置了一个详细的软件维护指南,使军方人员清楚地了解如何维护军用软件,对于不断提高装备研制单位的软件产品质量起到了积极的作用。     

Order acceptance and due-date quotation in low machine rates

In real manufacturing environments, some customer orders include multiple jobs. However, a single due-date should be assigned to each order. Further, machine processing rate is not constant at all times. In effect, in many manufacturing operations, the machine processing rate decreases to a subnormal level during time and needs a special type of maintenance to bring the normal state back. Due to this reduction in capacity, production schedulers may decide to reject some orders. In this paper, the novel extensive problem of selecting a subset of orders, assigning due-dates to selected orders, scheduling the selected orders and jobs within each one, and scheduling the rate-modifying maintenance is studied. The objective function is minimizing total cost of lost-sales of rejected orders together with due-date length and maximum of earliness and tardiness of selected orders. The problem is proved polynomial and an optimal approach is developed.