Improving Performance of Production Lines: Integration of Maintenance and Quality Policies: A Literature Review

摘要

Production scheduling, quality management and maintenance planning are the main functions of operational management in industrial plants. Although in reality they are interdependent, in practice these three fields are treated separately. This has generated as a fact independent models for each function that might yield suboptimal solutions. Hence, an appropriate understanding of the dependency between the mentioned parameters may improve the production systems efficiency and result in significant savings in costs. The objective of this study was to review the literature on models which deal with different integration issues in the production scheduling, quality management and maintenance planning, to point gaps which exist in current works to be able to deal with, in order to solve a simulation-based industrial system representing this integration.