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Original Articles

Effect of maintenance policies on FMS failures

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Pages 2647-2657 | Received 01 Jan 1992, Published online: 07 May 2007
 

Abstract

The potential benefits of flexible manufacturing systems have been shown to be sensitive to maintenance policies. Much of the information being published, however, is based on policies developed and proven for conventional stand-alone machinery. This paper evaluates five of these maintenance policies in the complex, highly integrated, computerized environment of flexible manufacturing systems.

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