IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/sprchp/978-3-642-40063-6_110.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Wind Turbine Spare Parts Management Based on Kanban System

In: Proceedings of 20th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management

Author

Listed:
  • Zhi-chun Zhang

    (Tianjin University)

  • Hong-wei Liu

    (Tianjin University)

  • Guo-wen Huang

    (Tianjin University)

Abstract

Spare parts inventories of wind turbines play an important role in improving the service level and reducing the operation and maintenance costs of turbines. The present paper introduces kanban system to wind turbine spare parts management and points out that the inventory bottom and upper lines are critical in the implementation of kanban system to wind turbine spare parts management. Then a model to determine inventory upper and bottom lines is proposed. Finally, a case from A Wind Power Technology Company is studied and the results show that kanban system is essential in ensuring high level service of spare parts to wind turbines, in reducing breakdown loss due to delay repairs, in reducing the inventory of the components in WT subsystems including pitch system, yaw system, generator system, frequency conversion system, hydraulic system.

Suggested Citation

  • Zhi-chun Zhang & Hong-wei Liu & Guo-wen Huang, 2013. "Wind Turbine Spare Parts Management Based on Kanban System," Springer Books, in: Ershi Qi & Jiang Shen & Runliang Dou (ed.), Proceedings of 20th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, edition 127, pages 1121-1129, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-642-40063-6_110
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-40063-6_110
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-642-40063-6_110. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.