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Integrated Spare Parts Management

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Handbook of Maintenance Management and Engineering

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Maintenance strategies are designed and implemented in order to reduce the frequency and duration of service interruptions, while satisfying constraints on budget, productivity, space, etc. A maintenance strategy is defined as the set of actions pertaining to maintaining or restoring a system in a specified state or in a state of readiness to accomplish a certain task. The main scientific contributions dealing with maintenance policies generally address the three following issues in a separate or combined way: the choice and the sequence of actions defining each strategy, the costs and durations of these actions, and the equipment lifetime and repair distributions. For many companies, the expenses incurred for kee** spare parts until they are used increase significantly the cost of their finished goods. Huge costs related to the inventory management of those parts have triggered studies on the provisioning and management decisions made in the process of acquiring and holding spare parts stocks.

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  2. Université Laval, Sainte-Foy, Quebec, Canada

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Diallo, C., Ait-Kadi, D., Chelbi, A. (2009). Integrated Spare Parts Management. In: Ben-Daya, M., Duffuaa, S., Raouf, A., Knezevic, J., Ait-Kadi, D. (eds) Handbook of Maintenance Management and Engineering. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-472-0_9

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