...Samane Babaeimorad; Parviz Fattahi; Hamed Fazlollahtabar Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present an integrated strategy for inventory control and preventive maintenance planning for a single-machine production system with increasing failure rates. Design/methodology/approach...

... industry are reported in the paper. Inventory control Analytical hierarchy process This paper is motivated by the fact that, for several production plants, the shortage cost incurred when a spare part is needed but unavailable is frequently dramatic. At the same time, the existing spare parts...