Simulation and Analysis of Preventive Maintenance Scheduling Techniques for Fruit-Roll Packaging Line

Abstract

Fruit rolls are one of the most popular dried food snacks. As the popularity of fruit rolls increases significantly in the last decade, maintenance scheduling for fruit-roll packing lines is becoming more and more important. In order to study the various preventive maintenance (PM) scheduling techniques for the fruit-roll packaging line, this paper builds a simulation model to analyze PM scheduling techniques to reduce downtime and associated costs. Three PM scheduling techniques, which are Global Maintenance Order (GMO), Reliability-based Maintenance Order (RMO), and Value-based Maintenance Order (VMO), are considered. A multi-criteria decision-making approach based on utility theory is proposed to select the PM schedule that will give the best utility, performance, and reliability. Statistical and graphical multi-criteria decision-making analysis are also provided.