Optimal Production and Maintenance Planning of Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing under Performance Decay

Abstract

Considering the performance decay of the chromatography resins in the downstream purification of biopharmaceutical manufacturing, the maintenance decisions should be made at appropriate times to achieve a good performance of the whole manufacturing process. In this paper, on the basis of the literature work on production planning, a mixed integer linear programming optimization model is developed to address the production and maintenance planning of biopharmaceutical manufacturing under performance decay, in which the total operating profit is maximized. The batch production profiles are tracked by binary variables introduced in the proposed model. The proposed model is then applied to two literature-based illustrative examples. Two scenarios are investigated and compared with the optimal solutions. A discussion about the effects of the maintenance duration and cost and the resin’s lifetime is also presented.