Scheduling Maintenance Activities During Planned Outages At Nuclear Power Plants

Authors

  • Alan R McKendall Jr West Virginia University
  • James Noble University of Missouri-Columbia
  • Cerry Klein University of Missouri-Columbia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23055/ijietap.2008.15.1.62

Keywords:

Resource Constrained Project Scheduling Problem, Simulated Annealing, Meta-heuristic, Outage Planning, Electric Power Plants

Abstract

In order to maintain high production rates, electric power as well as manufacturing plants shut down so that maintenance activities can be performed on machines/equipment. These planned shut downs (outages) usually occur at least once a year and are more frequent for plants with older machines/equipment. The major costs associated with outages are cost of materials, labor cost, and loss of production cost. Due to high cost incurred from loss of production, the objective is to schedule maintenance activities such that outage duration is minimized. Since the resources required to perform maintenance activities are very limited, the problem of scheduling the maintenance activities is defined as a resource constrained project scheduling problem (RCPSP). In this paper, a solution technique, which consists of a simulated annealing heuristic, is presented for the RCPSP.

Author Biographies

Alan R McKendall Jr, West Virginia University

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James Noble, University of Missouri-Columbia

James S. Noble is an Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering at the University of Missouri - Columbia. He received his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University, MSIE from Purdue University, and BSIE from the University of Oklahoma. His research interests include integrated material flow systems, logistics systems, production planning and control, and production economics. He is currently an Associate Editor for Engineering Design and Automation and on the Editorial Board of International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering. He is a licensed professional engineer in Missouri and a senior member of IIE and ASME.

Cerry Klein, University of Missouri-Columbia

Cerry Klein is a Professor in the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering at the University of Missouri – Columbia. He received his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University where he also received his MS in Mathematics. His current research interests lie in logistics, entrepreneurship, service science, data mining, public policy, health care, and optimization. He has authored and co-authored over 170 technical publications. He is currently an area editor for the International Journal of Operations and Quantitative Management. He is a senior member of Institute for Operations Research and Management Science, the Mathematical Programming Society, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, and the American Society for Engineering Education.

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Published

2022-02-24

How to Cite

McKendall Jr, A. R., Noble, J., & Klein, C. (2022). Scheduling Maintenance Activities During Planned Outages At Nuclear Power Plants. International Journal of Industrial Engineering: Theory, Applications and Practice, 15(1), 53–61. https://doi.org/10.23055/ijietap.2008.15.1.62

Issue

Vol. 15 No. 1 (2008)

Section

Quality, Reliability, Maintenance Engineering

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