Optimizing Routine Maintenance Team Routes

Francesco Longo, Andrea Rocco Lotronto, Marco Scarpa, Antonio Puliafito

2015

Abstract

Simulated annealing is a metaheuristic approach for the solution of optimization problems inspired to the controlled cooling of a material from a high temperature to a state in which internal defects of the crystals are minimized. In this paper, we apply a simulated annealing approach to the scheduling of geographically distributed routine maintenance interventions. Each intervention has to be assigned to a maintenance team and the choice among the available teams and the order in which interventions are performed by each team are based on team skills, cost of overtime work, and cost of transportation. We compare our solution algorithm versus an exhaustive approach considering a real industrial use case and show several numerical results to analyze the effect of the parameters of the simulated annealing on the accuracy of the solution and on the execution time of the algorithm.

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Longo F., Rocco Lotronto A., Scarpa M. and Puliafito A. (2015). Optimizing Routine Maintenance Team Routes . In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-758-096-3, pages 535-546. DOI: 10.5220/0005400105350546


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@conference{iceis15,
author={Francesco Longo and Andrea Rocco Lotronto and Marco Scarpa and Antonio Puliafito},
title={Optimizing Routine Maintenance Team Routes},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,},
year={2015},
pages={535-546},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005400105350546},
isbn={978-989-758-096-3},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,
TI - Optimizing Routine Maintenance Team Routes
SN - 978-989-758-096-3
AU - Longo F.
AU - Rocco Lotronto A.
AU - Scarpa M.
AU - Puliafito A.
PY - 2015
SP - 535
EP - 546
DO - 10.5220/0005400105350546