The integration in production planning, scheduling, maintenance and quality has gained
much attention from researchers in recent years. These areas are usually treated …

Purpose The findings of this study have lightened the focal research areas in maintenance
planning and scheduling. These also served as effective guidelines for future studies in this …

Many decision problems have more than one objective that need to be dealt with
simultaneously. Risk, Reliability and Maintenance (RRM) are contexts in which decision …

Joint optimization models were developed combining group preventive maintenance of a
series system and production scheduling. In this paper, we propose a joint optimization …

Two important aspects of manufacturing systems are production scheduling and
maintenance planning. These aspects are interdependent, but in most research work, this …

Most production scheduling problems, including the standard flexible job-shop scheduling
problem (FJSP), assume that machines are continuously available. However, in most …

Nowadays, modern production patterns, such as batch production, have brought new
challenges for multi-unit maintenance decision-making. The maintenance scheduling …

Equipment maintenance is momentous for improving production efficiency, how to integrate
maintenance into production to address uncertain problems has attracted considerable …

This paper deals with a single machine scheduling problems with availability constraints.
The unavailability of machine results from periodic maintenance activities. In our research, a …

The continuity of activity and competition in the global business market has urged
organizations to move from centralized to decentralized structures and develop multi-factor …