Simultaneous optimization of X control chart and age-based preventive maintenance policies under an economic objective

The economic design of control charts and the optimization of preventive maintenance policies have separately received a tremendous amount of attention in the quality and reliability literature over the years in an attempt to reduce the costs associated with operating manufacturing processes. Not un...

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Published in:IIE transactions 2008-02, Vol.40 (2), p.147
Main Authors: Yeung, Thomas G, Cassady, C Richard, Schneider, Kellie
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Control charts
Manufacturing
Markov analysis
Optimization
Preventive maintenance
Process controls
Quality control
Studies
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Summary:The economic design of control charts and the optimization of preventive maintenance policies have separately received a tremendous amount of attention in the quality and reliability literature over the years in an attempt to reduce the costs associated with operating manufacturing processes. Not until recently has the proposal been made to integrate these two fields and utilize the relationship between quality and equipment performance to improve the productivity of a manufacturing process. In this paper, we extend the initial preliminary investigation of this idea of using an X chart in conjunction with an age-replacement preventive maintenance policy. We formulate a partially observable, discrete-time Markov decision process in order to obtain the near-optimal combined preventive maintenance/statistical process control policy that minimizes the costs associated with maintenance, sampling, and poor quality. We develop transition probabilities for the various states of the infinite horizon problem and a solution algorithm for finding the best policy in polynomial time by finding a control limit on the sampling policy. We also perform sensitivity analysis on the decision variables for each of the various input parameters. It is shown that in every case a combined PM and SPC policy is the most cost efficient. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
ISSN:2472-5854
2472-5862
DOI:10.1080/07408170701592515