Impact of the Corrective Maintenance Cost on Manufacturing Remanufacturing System Performance

This paper studies a manufacturing remanufacturing system composed by two parallel machines, a serviceable inventory, a remanufacturing inventory and a customer which demands a constant quantity of part. Taking into account the return of the used part and the maintenance action, discrete flow model is used to model and to simulate the system. The goal of this work is to evaluate the optimal serviceable inventory level which allows minimizing the sum of inventory, lost sales costs and the corrective maintenance cost. Numerical results are presented to show the impact of the corrective maintenance cost on the optimal serviceable inventory level.