Abstract: In manufacturing industry, downtimes have been considered as major impact factors of production performance. However, the real impacts of downtime events and relationships between downtimes and ...

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Abstract: Timely performance of preventive maintenance (PM) tasks is a critical element of manufacturing systems. Since the majority of PM tasks requires that equipment be stopped, these tasks can generally ...

Abstract: One key characteristic of any process performance is variability; that is, a process rarely performs consistently over time. The bottleneck is one of the main reasons causing the system variability ...

Abstract: Downtime is arguably the single most significant contributor to system inefficiency in a multistage manufacturing system. Achieving near-zero downtime has been the ultimate goal of production ...