To this day, continuous developments of technical systems and increasing reliance on
equipment have resulted in a growing importance of effective maintenance activities. During …

Spare parts are held to reduce the consequences of equipment downtime, playing an
important role in achieving the desired equipment availability at a minimum economic cost …

This study investigates the joint optimization of the strategy for periodic condition-based
opportunistic preventive maintenance (CBOM) and a safety policy for the provision of spare …

Spare parts demands are usually generated by the need of maintenance either preventively
or at failures. These demands are difficult to predict based on historical data of past spare …

In many military scenarios, an aircraft fleet is oftentimes required to execute a sequence of
missions with finite breaks between two adjacent missions. The performance of a fleet can …

In airline industries, the aircraft maintenance cost takes up about 13% of the total operating
cost. It can be reduced by a good planning. Spare parts inventories exist to serve the …

Abstract Systems that require maintenance typically consist of multiple components. In case
of economic dependencies, maintaining several of these components simultaneously can …

Demand for spare parts is typically intermittent and forecasting the relevant requirements
constitutes a very challenging exercise. Why is the demand for spare parts intermittent and …

It is understood that for a multi-unit series system, whenever one of the units stops to perform
a preventive maintenance (PM) action, the whole series system must be stopped. At that …

Spare parts and maintenance are closely related logistics activities where maintenance
generates the need for spare parts. When preventive maintenance is present, it may need …