Simulation-based evaluation of an integrated planning and scheduling algorithm for maintenance projects

The field of maintenance project planning and scheduling is attracting increasing

attention due to ever growing competition among manufacturing organisations. There is

a lack of studies that has tackled all the aspects of maintenance project implementation

such as costs, resources, down times, uncertainties, operational constraints, among

others. Therefore, an approach which uses a unitary structuring method and discrete

event simulation to integrate relevant data about the maintenance projects is proposed.

The results of the evaluation, on a case from paper-pulp industry, have shown that the

proposed approach is able to overcome most of the issues of maintenance planning and

scheduling.