• A sorting based efficient heuristic for pooled repair shop designs 

      Turan, Hasan Hüseyin; Sleptchenko, Andrei; Pokharel, Shaligram; ElMekkawy, Tarek Y ( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)
      In this paper, we address the assignment problem of skills to servers (e.g., repairmen) in a multi-server repair shop of a spare parts supply system. This type of assignment problems tends to be hard in general, due to the ...
    • Joint optimization of redundancy level and spare part inventories 

      Sleptchenko, Andrei; van der Heijden, Matthieu ( Elsevier Ltd , 2016 , Article)
      We consider a "k-out-of-N"? system with different standby modes. Each of the N components consists of multiple part types. Upon failure, a component can be repaired within a certain time by switching the failed part by a ...
    • What is Middle Maintenance Policy? 

      Zhao, Xufeng; Al?Khalifa, Khalifa N.; Hamouda, Abdel Magid; Nakagawa, Toshio ( John Wiley and Sons Ltd , 2016 , Article)
      The main purpose of this paper is to propose several new maintenance policies that can be performed at suitable middle times for trivariate preventive maintenance scenarios. Firstly, characteristics and limitations for the ...