Relating strategic time horizons and proactiveness in equipment maintenance : a simulation-based optimization study

Identifying sustainable strategies to develop maintenance performance within the short-termism framework is indeed challenging. It requires reinforcing long-term capabilities while managing short-term requirements. This study explores differently applied time horizons when optimizing the tradeoff between conflicting objectives, in maintenance performance, which are: maximize availability, minimize maintenance costs, and minimize maintenance consequence costs. The study has applied multi-objective optimization on a maintenance performance system dynamics model that contains feedback structures that explains reactive and proactive maintenance behavior on a general level. The quantified results provide insights on how different time frames are conditional to enable more or less proactive maintenance behavior in servicing production.CC BY-NC-ND 4.0Edited by Lihui WangThis work was partially financed by Knowledge Foundation (KKS), Sweden, through the IPSI Research School. The authors gratefully acknowledge their provision of the research funding and the support of industrial partners, including Volvo Car Corporation and Volvo Group Trucks Operations.