Dynamic group maintenance policy in a smart sensor integrated flow-line manufacturing system
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Originally published in the Proceedings of the 2005 Northeast Decision Sciences Institute Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 30-April 1, 2005 (CD-ROM)
Abstract
Machine-tool breakdowns, both expected and unexpected, make it difficult to devise effective maintenance plans that do not adversely affect the performance of a manufacturing system. This work presents a heuristic maintenance grouping algorithm which takes the machine-tool failure information provided by smart sensors into account to come up with condition-based preventive maintenance plans that does not severely affect the manufacturing system operations. Studies on the simulation model of a flow-line manufacturing system integrated with smart sensors indicate that grouping of maintenance actions increases the uptime efficiency, boosts the production rate, reduces the maintenance cost, and decreases the production loss.
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Surendra M. Gupta, Srikanth Vadde, Sagar V. Kamarthi, and Cheng Cui. "Dynamic group maintenance policy in a smart sensor integrated flow-line manufacturing system" (2005).
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/skamarthi/16