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Machine Downtime Effect on the Warm-Up Period in an Economic Production Quantity Problem

Authors :
Erfan Nobil
Leopoldo Eduardo Cárdenas-Barrón
Dagoberto Garza-Núñez
Gerardo Treviño-Garza
Armando Céspedes-Mota
Imelda de Jesús Loera-Hernández
Neale R. Smith
Amir Hossein Nobil
Source :
Mathematics, Vol 11, Iss 7, p 1740 (2023)
Publication Year :
2023
Publisher :
MDPI AG, 2023.

Abstract

Success in the industrial sector is compromised by diverse conditions such as imperfect product production, manufacturing line interruptions, and unscheduled maintenance. The precise use of common practices in production environments is an available solution to eliminate some of these issues. Applying a warm-up period in a manufacturing process is adequate and cost-effective for almost all companies. It improves the equipment’s productivity and helps the manufacturing line generate fewer defective products. Even though several inventory management studies have included a warm-up phase in their models, its use in economic production quantity (EPQ) models remains largely unexplored. Adding a warm-up phase to the production cycle minimizes maintenance expenses and defective products and increases the machine’s performance. In this study, the dependency between the machine downtime and the warm-up length is examined for the first time. The warm-up time depends on the machine’s off-state period: if the machine has a longer operation timeout, then a longer warm-up period is needed. The model includes a function to model the warm-up time relative to the machine downtime and two types of defective products: scrapping and reworking items. The study is concluded with some numerical examples, a sensitivity analysis, and some management insights related to the EPQ.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
22277390
Volume :
11
Issue :
7
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
Mathematics
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.55823940dabd42d09706aad1ec1ac817
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.3390/math11071740