Optimizing reliability and service parts logistics for a time-varying installed base. (English) Zbl 1244.90076
Summary: Performance based contracting (PBC) emerges as a new after-sales service practice to support the operation and maintenance of capital equipment or systems. Under the PBC framework, the goal of the study is to increase the system operational availability while minimizing the logistics footprint through the design for reliability. We consider the situation where the number of installed systems randomly increases over the planning horizon, resulting in a non-stationary maintenance and repair demand. Renewal equation and Poisson process are used to estimate the aggregate fleet failures. We propose a dynamic stocking policy that adaptively replenishes the inventory to meet the time-varying parts demand. An optimization model is formulated and solved under a multi-phase adaptive inventory control policy. The study provides theoretical insights into the performance-driven service operation in the context of changing system fleet size due to new installations. Trade-offs between reliability design and inventory level are examined and compared in various shipment scenarios. Numerical examples drawn from semiconductor equipment industry are used to demonstrate the applicability and the performance of the proposed method.
MSC:
| 90B25 | Reliability, availability, maintenance, inspection in operations research |
| 90B06 | Transportation, logistics and supply chain management |
| 90B05 | Inventory, storage, reservoirs |
Keywords:
reliability; repairable inventory; life cycle cost analysis; non-stationary demand; performance based logisticsReferences:
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