Joint Prescriptive Maintenance and Production Planning Simulation

This technical report presents a simulation study that integrates joint prescriptive maintenance (PxM) with production planning and control (PPC) strategies for an extrusion system. The objective of the study is to compare the effectiveness of PxM strategies against traditional maintenance methods, such as reactive and scheduled maintenance. The authors propose a fault prediction model that utilizes health indicators and future loads, which is then incorporated into a simulation model. The simulation evaluates the performance of various strategies over different time horizons, revealing that joint PxM and PPC strategies significantly outperform traditional methods, offering notable time savings. Additionally, a sensitivity analysis assesses the robustness of PxM strategies under varying levels of measurement noise, highlighting potential challenges in high noise conditions. The findings contribute to the field of prognostics and health management by providing a comprehensive analysis of the performance of integrated maintenance and production strategies using real industrial data.