Reliability Analysis for Inventory Management for Repair Parts Based on Imperfect Data
摘要
This chapter focuses on the appropriate inventory management of repair parts to increase the operational availability of production equipment. In practice, many small and medium-sized companies in South Korea face limitations in establishing an appropriate database for the maintenance. To address this issue, this chapter introduces a simple approach that utilizes purchase history records based on Monte-Carlo simulation. By using purchase history records, it is possible to generate a much larger amount of failure information than what is available from imperfect maintenance records, which can then be used to help the inventory management.