Reducing costs of repairable inventory supply systems via dynamic scheduling

A survey of maintenance and service logistics management: Classification and research agenda from a maritime sector perspective

“…Van der Heijden et al [40] provide a method for the joint optimization of spare parts inventories and throughput times of repair and transportation for multi-echelon, multi-indenture spare part networks. Additional related papers with finite repair capacity considerations can be found in Sleptchenko et al [120], Zijm and Avşar [165] and Tiemessen and Van Houtum [166].…”

A multi-item approach to repairable stocking and expediting in a fluctuating demand environment

“…The possibility to either expedite repair or prioritize the scheduling of repairs in the repair shop has been considered many times, mostly under the assumption of fixed given turn-around stock levels (Hausman and Scudder, 1982;Scudder, 1986;Scudder and Chua, 1987;Pyke, 1990;Tiemessen and Van Houtum, 2012;Liang et al, 2013). In these contributions, the repair shop is modeled by a finite server queue.…”

Spare Parts Planning and Control for Maintenance Operations

“…Also Caggiano et al (2006) provide a model to allocate repair capacity in real time to different repair jobs based on current inventory levels. Priority schedules and use of flexible capacity in the form of overtime are discussed by Guide Jr et al (2000), Hausman and Scudder (1982) and Tiemessen and Van Houtum (2012).…”

“…The possibility to either expedite repair or prioritize the scheduling of repairs in the repair shop has been considered many times, mostly under the assumption of fixed given turn-around stock levels (Hausman and Scudder, 1982;Scudder, 1986;Scudder and Chua, 1987;Pyke, 1990;Tiemessen and Van Houtum, 2012). In these contributions, the repair shop is modeled by a finite server queue.…”

“…As observed by Tiemessen and Van Houtum (2012), even for fixed given turn-around stock levels, computing optimal priority rules, or evaluating a given rule, requires computation times that grow exponentially in the number of different repairable types. Accordingly, most contributions in this area use simulation to study heuristic priority rules.…”