ABSTRACT
In Chapter 15, a maintenance model was proposed to minimize the quality loss and maintenance costs. Maintenance of a manufacturing process with consideration of product quality loss is called
quality-oriented maintenance
. There are two major limitations in the maintenance model developed in Chapter 15: (1) Chapter 15 focuses on BIW assembly processes instead of a general MMP with a more general process model as given in Equation 16.1; (2) catastrophic failures are not captured in the model of Chapter 15. In this chapter, we will develop a more general qualityoriented maintenance model based on the general process model as given in Equation 16.1 with catastrophic failures of manufacturing-system components considered. Besides age replacement, other commonly used multicomponent maintenance strategies will also be investigated in this chapter.
