Work balancing increasingly plays an important role in both theudproduction and maintenance functions. However, the literature on work balancingudproblems in transfer line manufacturing systems provides little information on theudcontributions of maintenance technicians and spare parts with a focus on penalty,udtechnicians’ costs and incentives for staff. Unlike existing reports, the currentudinvestigation attempts to solve the maintenance task balancing problem. It combinesudpreventive maintenance technicians’ assignments with product demand and sparesudutilisation in a transfer line manufacturing system. It uses an optimisation framework thatudmeasures the success of post-line balancing solution performance in a system from audholistic perspective. The novelty of the approach lies in the integration of technicians andudspare parts theory and the introduction of penalty, technicians’ costs and incentive forudstaff. The proposed optimisation method was applied to a case study for detergentudmanufacturing system as a means of testing the effectiveness and robustness of theudapproach. The results show that the proposed model appears to be effective. Someudsimulations were also carried out to complement practical results
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