scholarly journals A Preventive Maintenance Problem of Armour Blocks with an In-Service Period

Author(s):  
Takashi SATOW ◽  
Yoshiharu MATSUMI ◽  
Hayato SUMI ◽  
Takayuki HIRAYAMA ◽  
Takao OTA
Author(s):  
Takao Ota ◽  
Hiroyuki Kawamura ◽  
Yoshiharu Matsumi ◽  
Junji Koyanagi ◽  
Takashi Satow

The infrastructures are required to keep a certain level of performance during the duration of service. Because the performance of the infrastructures including harbor and coastal structures deteriorates due to aging and damage that is caused by the action of external forces, it is necessary to perform appropriate maintenance. Satow et al. (2009) proposed a mathematical model for the preventive maintenance of wave dissipating blocks based on the method of the reliability engineering. They also derived the expected maintenance cost over the in service period and the optimal preventive maintenance policy. In this study, the optimal threshold for preventive maintenance to minimize the expected maintenance cost is determined for the wave dissipating blocks covering caisson breakwater by using the above model.


2013 ◽  
Vol 684 ◽  
pp. 116-119
Author(s):  
Young Soo Jeong ◽  
Shigenobu Kainuma ◽  
Jin Hee Ahn

Various maintenance problem has been reported according to the increase in service period of steel structures. It is difficult to examine and evaluate the corrosion problem and phenomena because of its uncertainty based on the environmental condition. Thus, the corrosion characteristics of the carbon steel were investigated to analyze the corrosion effect of carbon steel on the different atmospheric environments. The atmospheric exposure tests on uncoated carbon steel plates were conducted, to examine the corrosion phenomena and to obtain a fundamental corroded surface under different corrosion atmospheric environments. The corrosion characteristics of the carbon steel were compared depending on their different atmospheric environment and their exposure periods.


2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (6/7) ◽  
pp. 873-904
Author(s):  
Mohamed Ali Kammoun ◽  
Zied Hajej ◽  
Nidhal Rezg

PurposeThe main contribution of this manuscript is to suggest new approaches in order to deal with dynamic lot-sizing and maintenance problem under aspect energetic and risk analysis. The authors introduce a new maintenance strategy based on the centroid approach to determine a common preventive maintenance plan for all machines to minimize the total maintenance cost. Thereafter, the authors suggest a risk analysis study further to unforeseen disruption of availability machines with the aim of helping the production stakeholders to achieve the obtained forecasting lot-size plan.Design/methodology/approachThe authors tackle the dynamic lot-sizing problem using an efficient hybrid approach based on random exploration and branch and bound method to generate possible solutions. Indeed, the feasible solutions of random exploration method are used as input for branch and bound to determine the near-optimal solution of lot-size plan. In addition, our contribution to the maintenance part is to determine the optimal common maintenance plan for M machines based on a new algorithm called preventive maintenance (PM) periods means.FindingsFirst, the authors have funded the optimal lot-size plan that should satisfy the random demand under service level requirement and energy constraint while minimizing the costs of production and inventory. Indeed, establishing a best lot-size plan is to determine the appropriate number of available machines and manufactured units per period. Second, for risk analysis study, the solution of subcontracting is proposed by specifying a maximum cost of subcontractor in the context of a calling of tenders.Originality/valueFor maintenance problem, the originality consists in regrouping the maintenance plans of M machines into only one plan. This approach lets us to minimize the total maintenance cost and reduces the frequent breaks of production. As a second part, this paper contributed to the development of a new risk analysis study further to unforeseen disruption of availability machines. This risk analysis developed a decision-making system, for production stakeholders, in order to achieve the forecasting lot-size plan and keeps its profitability, by specifying the unit cost threshold of subcontractor in the context of a calling of tender.


2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Mehmet Savsar

Maintenance is one of the central issues in operational activities, which involve any type of equipment. In this paper we have considered analysis, modeling, and scheduling of preventive maintenance operations for fuel dispensers in a chain of gas stations. A gas station company with more than 570 dispensers in more than 40 stations is considered and the maintenance problem is studied in detail. Operations research tools, including maintenance models and linear programming, were used to establish optimum schedules for preventive maintenance operations. Detailed cost analyses were carried out to determine feasibility of the proposed preventive maintenance schedules. Models and procedures presented in this paper could guide operation engineers and maintenance managers in solving similar problems for operational improvements.


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