...Binghai Zhou; Zilong Liu Purpose Making decisions on preventive maintenance (PM) policy and buffer sizing, as is often studied, may not result in overall optimization. The purpose of this paper is to propose a joint model that integrates PM and buffer sizing with consideration of quality loss...

.... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Availability Integrated planning Iteration Nonlinear constraints Preventive maintenance Production management Production management and maintenance arrangement are two fundamental activities in the industrial environment. They have...

... downtime became significant aspect. Hence, the concept of preventive maintenance (PM) was introduced, i.e. “I operate – You Fix”. In 1960s, this consisted of mainly equipment overhauls at regular periodic intervals of time. 3. Third time perspective. Since the mid‐1970s, the changes...

... this information may also be accessed from a maintenance management database there is the added possibility of using the data generated factory wide, as part of an integrated maintenance management system. © MCB UP Limited 1997 Advanced manufacturing technologies Preventive maintenance Production...