Nowadays, manufacturing systems have become more complex due to their complicated processes and their expensive multi-components. This leads to a challenge to maximize the utilization of these multi-components during their lifetime by developing advanced maintenance strategies [1]. Implementing and selecting an optimal maintenance strategy aims at reducing the maintenance costs, in addition, to take into consideration the different dependencies existing between the manufacturing systems’ components and the harmony between the production and maintenance systems as a whole [2]. These dependencies might be economical, stochastic and structural dependence [3]. Opportunistic maintenance can be defined as “ the combination of corrective and preventive maintenance” [4], or in a more comprehensive definition according to [5] opportunistic maintenance is “a systematic method of collection, investigation and preplanning activities for generating a set of maintenance tasks to act on in the occurrence of an opportunity.” The aims of this study are to conduct a literature survey to investigate, address and align the aspects of opportunistic maintenance that can declare and resolve the conflict between managerial and technological objectives in the manufacturing firms, introduce the tools which might help in finding a good compromise between them, in addition, to characterise the roles of planning and scheduling tasks in this respect to help the decision-makers to adopt such approach to exploit in the best way the time windows that happen to be available during production time. The relationship between the managerial and the technological functions can be depicted through developing a comprehensive maintenance management system. According to Duffuaa and Raouf in [5], the maintenance management system consisted of three major functions, namely planning and scheduling, organizing, and controlling. To conclude, applications of opportunistic maintenance are widely available in the literature, however in the real industry still limited. The implementation of an opportunistic maintenance strategy will result in a smaller number of scheduled shutdowns, increased efficiency and less maintenance costs in return of increased investment in staff training, coordination and planning activities.

Conference Title

The 9th International Interdisciplinary Doctoral Conference (IDK2020)

Conference Country

Hungary

Conference Date

Nov. 27, 2020 - Nov. 28, 2020

Conference Sponsor

Pécs University

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