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Connecting Inventory and Repair Shop Control for Repairable Items

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This paper presents control structures for integrating decisions on spare parts inventories and repair shops. A different control structure is proposed for the various repair shop types recognized in practice. An overview of related literature is presented and open research topics are identified. The applicability of the control structures is verified in case studies. This paper furthermore aims to provide a basis for further research on designing control structures for the integrated control of spare parts inventory and repair shops. An agenda for further research is presented.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Note that modificative maintenance (to improve the performance of the asset) in principal does not lead to the repair of the removed LRU’s.

  2. 2.

    For a classification of the repair shops in our case study companies, see Sects. 5.2 and 5.3.

  3. 3.

    Repair shops with a high ‘no fault found’ or scrap rate are, from a control perspective, comparable to repair shops with a high material uncertainty. Therefore we do not account for scrap of parts and ‘no fault found’ in the design of the various control structures.

  4. 4.

    Research to apply batching policies (of e.g. repairs, returns or transshipments) is beyond the scope of this paper.

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  1. School of Industrial Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, 5600, MB, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Martin A. Driessen, Geert-Jan van Houtum & Vincent C. S. Wiers

  2. Gordian Logistic Experts, Groenewoudsedijk 63, 3528, BG, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Martin A. Driessen & Jan Willem Rustenburg

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  1. University of Twente Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Enschede, Overijssel, The Netherlands

    Henk Zijm

  2. Institute for Logistics and Service Management, FOM University of Applied Sciences Essen, Essen, Germany

    Matthias Klumpp

  3. Institute of Transport Logistics, TU Dortmund University, Dortmund, Germany

    Uwe Clausen

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Driessen, M.A., Rustenburg, J.W., van Houtum, GJ., Wiers, V.C.S. (2016). Connecting Inventory and Repair Shop Control for Repairable Items. In: Zijm, H., Klumpp, M., Clausen, U., Hompel, M. (eds) Logistics and Supply Chain Innovation. Lecture Notes in Logistics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22288-2_12

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