Usage of Simulating in Improving the Management of Maintenance and Repair at the Transportation Company

Abstract

Vehicle maintenance plays an important role in the activities of the transportation company. It is an integral part of company operation. The timeliness of the vehicle maintenance of largely depends on the adopted management system of their application for service. The article is devoted to the issues of ensuring the rational functioning of a transportation companion the basis of the development and implementation of an information system for managing the vehicle maintenance and repair. In developing the maintenance management information system, we proceeded from the possibility of qualitatively and effectively implementing the general goal of the technical operation subsystem. It consists in maintaining fleet performance and the need for developing recommendations on the implementation of measures aimed at ensuring quality and timely maintenance. A simulation model of the transportation company has been built. A plan-factor computer experiment was carried out, which allowed finding such parameter values (the number of repair workers, the age structure of the fleet, the permissible variation of the established maintenance frequency) that ensure a minimum of the goal function—the cost of the fleet operating. On the basis of the data obtained as a result of the simulating, it is possible to make recommendations on the rational management of the fleet maintenance system.