Identification of Strategic Maintenance

Prasobh Narayanan, Wim Verhagen, Viswanath Dhanisetty

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Abstract

Airline Maintenance and Engineering (M&E) organizations face accidental damages on their fleet of aircraft as part of daily practice. As this type of damage is stochastic in nature, the approach towards repairing accidental damage is reactive in practice. However, it is possible to predict future long-term (strategic) demand for maintenance resources associated with accidental damages and use this to identify required capacity. To achieve the mutually related goals of prediction of future repairs and determination of capacity, a novel approach for integration of reliability modelling and inventory control is presented in this paper. Here, the concept of inventory control has been specifically applied to determine the maintenance capacity by taking into account the stochastic demand related to unscheduled repairs following from accidental damages. To predict demand, a Non-homogeneous Poisson Process (NHPP) reliability model has been adopted. The reliability model includes superpositioning, through which failure behaviour at aircraft fleet-level can be estimated and subsequently simulated. The resulting demand is fed into a single-system, single location base-stock inventory model. This allows for determination of strategic capacity based on optimum costs as well as service level requirements. A case study has been performed on a fleet of Boeing 777 aircraft of a major European airline. The results prove the feasibility of adopting an integrated approach towards strategic capacity identification, using real-life data to predict future demand occurrence.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationTransdisciplinary Engineering Methods for Social Innovation of Industry 4.0
Subtitle of host publicationProceedings of the 25th ISPE Inc. International Conference on Transdisciplinary Engineering, July 3–6, 2018
EditorsMargherita Peruzzini, Marcello Pellicciari, Cees Bil, Josip Stjepandić, Nel Wognum
PublisherIOS Press
Pages946-955
Volume7
ISBN (Electronic)978-1-61499-898-3
ISBN (Print)978-1-61499-897-6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2018
Event25th ISPE Inc. International Conference on Transdisciplinary Engineering
- Modena, Italy
Duration: 3 Jul 20186 Jul 2018
Conference number: 25th

Publication series

NameAdvances in Transdisciplinary Engineering
PublisherIOS Press
Volume7
ISSN (Print)2352-751X
ISSN (Electronic)2352-7528

Conference

Conference25th ISPE Inc. International Conference on Transdisciplinary Engineering
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityModena
Period3/07/186/07/18

Keywords

  • Aircraft maintenance
  • strategic resource scheduling
  • reliability

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