Nowadays, getting new markets depends on customer satisfaction. Quality is the most
important factor in customer satisfaction. Quality in production includes understanding the …

Performance of a manufacturing system depends significantly on the shop floor
performance. Traditionally, shop floor operational policies concerning maintenance …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to review the literature on maintenance optimization
models and associated case studies. For these optimization models critical observations are …

Purpose–Making decisions on production and maintenance separately, as is often done in
practice and research literature, may not result in overall optimization. This paper aims to …

New, global and extended markets are forcing companies to process and manage
increasingly differentiated products with shorter life cycles, low volumes and reduced …

Due to widespread automation and the high capital tied up in production equipment, the
importance of maintenance is ever increasing. This makes maintenance an investment …

Numerous of maintenance policies were developed due to the change in the manufacturing
environment and the growing of technologies in the past few decades. Due to fluctuation …

Today, world-class competitiveness is a must for companies. The undeniable global
competition, characterised by both a technology push and a market pull, and the rapidly …

Manufacturing product exhibits several quality characteristics. Quality inspection becomes a
crucial way to verify product conformance to requirements. Under certain inspection …

Performance of a production system significantly depends upon the effective planning of its
shop floor level operations like, production scheduling, maintenance and quality control …