摘要
Proper maintenance schedule is required to improve manufacturing systems鈥?profitability and productivity. A novel dynamic maintenance strategy is thus developed to incorporate both the single-machine optimization and the whole-system schedule for series-parallel system. Firstly, multiple attribute value theory and maintenance effects are considered in the single-machine optimization. A developed multi-attribute model (MAM) is used to determine the optimal maintenance intervals. Then, a series-parallel structure of the system is investigated in terms of the whole-system schedule. Maintenance time window (MTW) programming is presented to make a cost-effective system schedule by dynamically utilizing maintenance opportunities. The maintenance scheme achieved by using the proposed MAM-MTW methodology is demonstrated through a case study in a hydraulic steering factory. It is concluded that proper consideration of maintenance effects and time window leads to a significant cost reduction.