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Priority Scheduling and Spares Stocking Policies for a Repair Shop: The Multiple Failure Case

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  • Gary D. Scudder

    (School of Management, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455)

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Improved scheduling rules and spares stocking policies are examined for a repair shop supporting a multi-item repairable inventory system with a hierarchical product structure. The results from an earlier paper are extended to the case where more than one unit fails in each item to be repaired. A variety of scheduling rules and methods for initializing the vector of spare parts are evaluated using a simulation of a representative shop. The results indicate that procedures which perform well when only a single unit fails also perform well when multiple failures occur. More complex rules, which recognize assembly mating requirements, do not appear to provide any significant improvement.

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  • Gary D. Scudder, 1984. "Priority Scheduling and Spares Stocking Policies for a Repair Shop: The Multiple Failure Case," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 30(6), pages 739-749, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:ormnsc:v:30:y:1984:i:6:p:739-749
    DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.30.6.739
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    1. Kathryn E. Caggiano & John A. Muckstadt & James A. Rappold, 2006. "Integrated Real-Time Capacity and Inventory Allocation for Reparable Service Parts in a Two-Echelon Supply System," Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, INFORMS, vol. 8(3), pages 292-319, August.
    2. Sleptchenko, A. & van der Heijden, M. C. & van Harten, A., 2005. "Using repair priorities to reduce stock investment in spare part networks," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 163(3), pages 733-750, June.
    3. David F. Pyke, 1990. "Priority repair and dispatch policies for reparable‐item logistics systems," Naval Research Logistics (NRL), John Wiley & Sons, vol. 37(1), pages 1-30, February.
    4. Guide, V. Daniel R. & Srivastava, Rajesh, 1997. "Repairable inventory theory: Models and applications," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 102(1), pages 1-20, October.
    5. Sang-Hyun Kim & Brian Tomlin, 2013. "Guilt by Association: Strategic Failure Prevention and Recovery Capacity Investments," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 59(7), pages 1631-1649, July.
    6. van der Heijden, M.C. & Alvarez, E.M. & Schutten, J.M.J., 2013. "Inventory reduction in spare part networks by selective throughput time reduction," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 143(2), pages 509-517.
    7. Topan, E. & Eruguz, A.S. & Ma, W. & van der Heijden, M.C. & Dekker, R., 2020. "A review of operational spare parts service logistics in service control towers," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 282(2), pages 401-414.
    8. Reményi, Christoph & Staudacher, Stephan, 2014. "Systematic simulation based approach for the identification and implementation of a scheduling rule in the aircraft engine maintenance," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 147(PA), pages 94-107.

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