Alabdulkarim, Abdullah A., Ball, Peter D. orcid.org/0000-0002-1256-9339 and Tiwari, Ashutosh (2013) Applications of simulation in maintenance research. World Journal of Modelling and Simulation. pp. 14-37. ISSN 1746-7233
Abstract
The area of asset maintenance is becoming increasingly important as greater asset availability is demanded. This is evident in increasingly automated and more tightly integrated production systems as well as in service contracts where the provider is contracted to provide high levels of availability. Simulation techniques are able to model complex systems such as those involving maintenance and can be used to aid performance improvement. This paper examines engineering maintenance simulation research and applications in order to identify apparent research gaps. A systematic literature review was conducted in order to identify the gaps in maintenance systems simulation literature. Simulation has been applied to model different maintenance sub-systems (asset utilisation, asset failure, scheduling, staffing, inventory, etc.) but these are typically addressed in isolation and overall maintenance system behaviour is poorly addressed, especially outside of the manufacturing systems discipline. Assessing the effect of Condition Based Maintenance (CBM) on complex maintenance operations using Discrete Event Simulation (DES) is absent. This paper categorises the application of simulation in maintenance into eight categories.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. Further copying may not be permitted; contact the publisher for details |
Keywords: | Discrete event simulation,Engineering services,Maintenance,Simulation |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > The York Management School |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 18 Feb 2016 14:32 |
Last Modified: | 07 Jan 2025 00:08 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:93743 |
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